From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Subject: Re: Why isn't there Visual Ada?
Date: 08 Feb 2001 10:56:49 +0100
Date: 2001-02-08T10:56:49+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877l31pkf2.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 95rv2b$8a21@news.cis.okstate.edu
dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu (David Starner) writes:
> >Further, if you are not diddling with the hardware (as you shouldn't=20
> >be),
>
> If you're writing a compiler, you have to.
Huh? I've never seen a compiler that performs direct hardware access.
Compilers are usually the most portable pieces of software in common
use because they only translate one text file to another. Porting
compilers to a new host is usually not very hard (however, adding a
new target is a completely different story ;).
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2001-01-26 15:54 ` Why isn't there Visual Ada? - historical note Britt Snodgrass
2001-01-26 21:41 ` Randy Brukardt
2001-01-26 22:15 ` Pascal Obry
2001-02-07 19:21 ` aschw1309
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2001-01-27 3:17 ` Why isn't there Visual Ada? Robert Love
2001-01-27 23:47 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-02-06 8:08 ` Tomas Brixi
2001-02-07 15:58 ` Buz Cory
2001-02-07 17:02 ` David Starner
2001-02-08 9:56 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2001-02-08 9:54 ` Florian Weimer
2001-02-08 13:20 ` David Starner
2001-02-08 20:32 ` Florian Weimer
2001-02-08 21:06 ` David Starner
2001-02-09 8:31 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2001-02-09 15:39 ` David Starner
2001-02-09 22:20 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-01-26 18:05 Beard, Frank
2001-01-27 1:52 ` John English
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