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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: Why isn't there Visual Ada?
Date: 08 Feb 2001 10:56:49 +0100
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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 ;).