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From: Mike <spamnotme@invalid.com>
Subject: Why would it take so long to write an Ada compiler?
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 23:47:43 +0100
Date: 2002-12-14T23:47:43+01:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <MPG.1865cca835f2ccee98991a@News.CIS.DFN.DE> (raw)


Hello,

I've read somewhere that to make an Ada95 compliant compiler, 50 years-man of 
work are generally considered what is necessary.

How is this huge quantity of development time justified? Perhaps required for
the standard library?

Greets,
Mike



             reply	other threads:[~2002-12-14 22:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-12-14 22:47 Mike [this message]
2002-12-15 22:17 ` Why would it take so long to write an Ada compiler? AG
2002-12-16 14:50   ` Adrian Hoe
2002-12-16  3:23 ` steve_H
2002-12-16 12:46   ` Frank J. Lhota
2002-12-21 18:54 ` faust
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