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On 19-Mar-14 15:03, Randy Brukardt wrote:
> "Peter Chapin" <PChapin@vtc.vsc.edu> wrote in message
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>> I ask this because I have a pet project of my own to write an Ada 2012
>> compiler from scratch.
>
> Ah, another delusional soul. ;-) Take it from someone who seriously followed
> that path -- there be dragons. :-)

Well, at least we'll have company, right?

> For one thing, if you're at all  successful, you'll be stuck there for the
> rest of your working life. And to get far enough to be at all successful,
> you'll have to figure out how to deal with lovely things like resolution,
> visibility, and tyranny of interfaces.

Visibility is an important thing, as is resolution -- though maybe they 
are more on the complex side of things than we'd like.

With the "tyranny of interfaces" do you mean in-general like like a 
generic's formal parameters and a subprogram's signature? Or do you mean 
the construct of the 'interface' keyword?

> Odds are, you'll never get far enough to work on anything interesting.

This is true.