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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: Ada Dot Net ?
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Ingo Marks <adv@region-nord.de> writes:

> Expanding GNAT to .NET would be a very hard job. Wouldn't it be much easier 
> to write an Ada to C# compiler? Of course that wouldn't the real meat, but 
> better than nothing.

An Ada compiler targeting the CLR seems to be more plausible.  You
could take JGNAT and replace the code generator.  Changing the
compiler this way is probably rather straightforward, but writing the
Ada run-time library certainly isn't.