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From: dvdeug@x8b4e53cd. (David Starner)
Subject: Re: Ada95 Strengths/Weaknesses.
Date: 1999/09/28
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In article <7sqbfv$1tr$1@clnews.edf.fr>, p.obry@der.edf.fr wrote:
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>So, since GNAT is junk, do you have another Ada compiler to recommend?
>>>
>
>Well with comments like that we are going to have a really big thread !!!

I'm sorry. It was getting late at night, and someone I thought was reasonable
was "proving" that his language was perfect by tearing down my posts. And
then he says that any compiler that doesn't produce code about the size of
C++ is junk, and I knew that his compiler did that from a project I was
working on recently. 

>And I find that comparing languages from the generated code size very
>strange, but you certainly have good reasons :-)
It's not a big thing. Occasionally you have to fit a program in a small
space, like on a boot floppy. And it doesn't look good to have a small
game - which could probably fit in under 4k with a brilliant enough programmer
- to be 3/4 of a megabyte. 

David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org