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Subject: Re: Ada compiler in BASIC?
Date: 2000/04/17
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Yes! That is the article I was thinking of.
Thanks for doing the search.

What database contained the abstract?

I wonder if the source code is available someplace now?

--EE



In article <20000416223409129159@t4o921p4.telia.com>,
  bjarne.backstrom@telia.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bjarne_B=E4ckstr=F6m?=)
wrote:

<SNIP>

>    A search on my local disks...found this abstract. :-) If this is
the
> same compiler, the article actually appeared in Dr. Dobb's Journal,
> issues 75, 77, 79 and 81 (January to July 1983.) It's a "Tiny Ada"
> p-code compiler/interpreter, called "Augusta." There were two sets of
> source code, written in Microsoft BASIC and Borland Turbo Pascal.
>
>    The article also mentioned a 160 page book about Augusta, that was
> available from Microsystems Inc., 4147 Beethoven Street, Los Angeles,
> CA, 90066.
>
> /Bjarne.
>
>


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