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From: byhoe@greenlime.com (Adrian Hoe)
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Subject: Re: Ada Operating System
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Wannabe h4x0r <chris@dont.spam.me> wrote in message news:<9SMd8.122423$Pz4.542721@rwcrnsc53>...
> On Fri, 22 Feb 2002 15:37:24 -0500, David Starner wrote:
> 
> > On 22 Feb 2002 01:08:28 -0800, Adrian Hoe <byhoe@greenlime.com> wrote:
> >> But, if I am correct, GNAT is in Ada.
> > 
> > GNAT is in Ada and C. The bulk of the frontend is in Ada, and the
> > backend is in C.
> 
> Okay, the statement that GNAT is in Ada and C is being repeated so often
> that people are now actually starting to beleive it.
> 
> The correct statement would be that GNAT is written in Ada95 and the GCC
> RTL. i.e. GCCs internal representation tokens. As far as I know, there is
> not a single line of C code anywhere in the GNAT source code "proper".
> I could be mistaken, but I dont think I am.

This sounds familiar, Chris. I remembered someone talked about this sometime ago.

                              -- Adrian Hoe
                              -- http://greenlime.com/users/adrian.hoe

> Chris