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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 ;).



  reply	other threads:[~2001-02-08  9:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <94jki1$eha$1@nnrp1.deja.com>
     [not found] ` <u7l3kaavl.fsf@wanadoo.fr>
     [not found]   ` <3A70172C.B1D91123@earthlink.net>
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
     [not found] ` <DTr7BCXE70f+@eisner.decus.org>
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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