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From: Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Ada to C translator for small microcontrollers
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On 12-03-31 22:52 , Rugxulo wrote:

> Anyways, it may be easier to just use an interpreter, something like
> old NYU Ada/Ed, which was written in C, but I haven't ever looked
> close enough nor tried to recompile it. In other words, I don't know
> how portable that C code is, it was (AFAIK) 16-bit for an old Intel C
> compiler. Perhaps someone in this newsgroup has recompiled it before,
> who knows.

Wasn't Ada/Ed implemented in the SETL very-high-level-language? Perhaps 
SETL is implemented in C, however. There is a GNU SETL at http://setl.org/.

> I realize that's not native speed, but it's probably not
> too bad. It certainly is better than nothing.

IIRC, Ada/Ed was described as quite slow. Of course it should be much 
faster on modern machines, but it is Ada 83...

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