From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,PLING_QUERY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,b6d862eabdeb1fc4 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!feeder3.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!209.197.12.242.MISMATCH!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!69.16.185.11.MISMATCH!npeer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.flashnewsgroups.com-b7.4zTQh5tI3A!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada noob here! Is Ada widely used? References: <4bfbbdcb$0$6882$9b4e6d93@newsspool2.arcor-online.net> <93a818e9c91ccba6d8ea3a7258ef3265@mixmaster.it> <4bfbdd95$0$6776$9b4e6d93@newsspool3.arcor-online.net> Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 03:24:32 -0400 Message-ID: <828w776s7j.fsf@stephe-leake.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:T/h3sdWPlg0JlCqAopVT7fyqXE0= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@flashnewsgroups.com Organization: FlashNewsgroups.com X-Trace: 5deac4bfcccc5e197caa723275 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11031 Date: 2010-05-26T03:24:32-04:00 List-Id: "J-P. Rosen" writes: > Georg Bauhaus a écrit : >> Yes. Ada/Ed, though, being an Ada 83 interpreter, being >> written in SETL, not C, and being prototypical for GNAT, >> indicates that C is not necessarily the single language for >> writing high class compilers---as some have implied. >> I'm sure you know that is the case for some other languages, >> too. > In most programming languages, there is a relation between the structure > of the language itself and the kind of data it handles best. This is certainly true. > For this reason, and others like ease of porting, it is generally a > good idea to write the compiler in its own language, safe for special > cases like initial bootstrapping. That does not follow. If I have a language designed for manipulating databases, that means is is _not_ a good language for implementing a compiler. -- -- Stephe