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,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!news3.google.com!feeder3.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!209.197.12.242.MISMATCH!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!69.16.185.21.MISMATCH!npeer03.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: <7GwJn.4712$z%6.3258@edtnps83> <4xAKn.4703$Z6.1197@edtnps82> Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 03:21:52 -0400 Message-ID: <82d3wj6sbz.fsf@stephe-leake.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:AT6ucWZzaonPNx01eeP9PiADfzw= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@flashnewsgroups.com Organization: FlashNewsgroups.com X-Trace: 4d9464bfccc23e197caa719405 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11030 Date: 2010-05-26T03:21:52-04:00 List-Id: Duke Normandin writes: > do you know what language Ada is written in? I'd guess > C and asm. "Ada" refers to a standard language definition. It is written in English (there may be translations to other languages available). Various Ada compilers are written in various languages. The GNAT compiler front end is written in Ada; the back end is gcc, written in C; the runtime is written in Ada, with a little bit of assembler for specific machines. -- -- Stephe