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-Thread: 103376,865386f3ea1dd9f0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!d9c68f36!not-for-mail From: Marin David Condic User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: [Ada] implement many new Ada 2005 features References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 13:30:29 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.165.23.11 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net 1108474229 209.165.23.11 (Tue, 15 Feb 2005 05:30:29 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 05:30:29 PST Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8334 Date: 2005-02-15T13:30:29+00:00 List-Id: Hyman Rosen wrote: > For those c.l.a. readers who don'tregularly follow the gcc-patches > mailing list of gnu.gcc.org, check the following message: > > Good to see that there is an Ada 2005 implementation well under way and making good progress. > Good news for Ada devotees, and it should give pause to one or two > overly ambitious n.g. members who are bent on writing their own Ada > compilers from scratch :-) Depends on the reason for wanting to write your own compiler. If you want to learn about compiler theory or perhaps try out some techniques not done in other implementations or target some machine nobody else is interested in supporting, then you might have a really good reason. If the objective is to supplant the "industry leader" (is that fair to say of Gnat?) then one needs to be really well financed and have some anticipated features/benefits that will make the end product better. Without a "better idea" and lots of resources, I wouldn't try to overtake Gnat, et alia. But hobbies, education, theory testing, etc. are all good enough reasons to go for it. MDC -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jsf.mil/NSFrames.htm Send Replies To: m o d c @ a m o g c n i c . r "'Shut up,' he explained." -- Ring Lardner ======================================================================