From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1014db,304c86061dc69dba X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,5cb36983754f64da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-02-25 09:59:31 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-01!sn-xit-08!supernews.com!64.59.134.4.MISMATCH!pd7cy1no!pd7cy2so!shaw.ca!news.alt.net!cyclone.bc.net!news.uunet.ca!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c Subject: Re: No call for Ada (was Re: Announcing new scripting/prototyping References: <20040206174017.7E84F4C4114@lovelace.ada-france.org> <54759e7e.0402071124.322ea376@posting.google.com> <2460735.u7KiuvdgQP@linux1.krischik.com> <54759e7e.0402081525.50c7adae@posting.google.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 12:45:15 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.223.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1077731052 198.96.223.163 (Wed, 25 Feb 2004 12:44:12 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 12:44:12 EST Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5809 comp.lang.c:24021 Date: 2004-02-25T12:45:15-05:00 List-Id: Larry Kilgallen wrote: > In article <70vZb.116$nd2.3561@news20.bellglobal.com>, "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" writes: > >>Larry Kilgallen wrote: >> >>>In article , "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" writes: >>> >>>>It would be useful to have such an Open Sourced version of the same >>>>(or a flavour of GNAT). It could then be used as a bootstrap >>>>compiler for GNAT on new platforms. You would of course have to >>>>do a lot of Ada runtime library support at the C level as well, >>>>but for a bootstrap compiler, this could be minimized I think. >>> >>>For bootstrapping purposes, the compiler need not be open source, >>>since when you are done none of the original compiler would remain >>>and the result of your work could be distributed under whatever >>>terms you choose. >> >>Agreed, but an "Open Sourced" bootstrap compiler would >>allow _that_ compiler to be compiled by GCC, > > So would _any_ compiler to which someone who cares has source. > "Not Open Source" is different from "Nobody Has Source". OK, I thought my point was obvious: either it isn't or you're just being a troll ;-) The point is that opened sourced compilers allow anyone at any time to "port" a compiler (for the small cost of downloading). A proprietary compiler _usually_ does not come without a larger cost, unless it has been pirated. -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://ve3wwg.tk