Re: How do I "bootstrap" myself up a GNAT compiler in FreeBSD?

[Jonathan Guthrie <jguthrie@brokersys.com>]

In comp.lang.ada Gerald Leung <gerald@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> wrote:

> For anyone here who uses FreeBSD, gnat is in the ports collection
> listed as a translator though as I understand it it actually IS a
> full compiler or most of a full one.

I always understood that "translator" is the generic term that means
"either compiler or interpreter".  That is how I use that term in
conversation.  Systems that translate programs from one language to
another are "compilers" systems that figure out what a program does
and then do it are "interpreters".

There is nothing in the term "translator" that implies anything but a
"full compiler or most of a full one".

Of course, the GNAT people now insist that GNAT doesn't stand for
anything.

I'm still waiting for a gnatp that works with gcc 2.8.1.

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