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!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!wn13feed!worldnet.att.net!216.196.98.144!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!elnk-atl-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread2.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: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 12:35:04 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.165.13.225 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net 1108643704 209.165.13.225 (Thu, 17 Feb 2005 04:35:04 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 04:35:04 PST Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8378 Date: 2005-02-17T12:35:04+00:00 List-Id: Yeah, maybe. Unless the course has a title like "Understanding the Ada Programming Language From A Compiler Theory Perspective..." I'm aware of a number of compiler courses that at one time or another had students implementing mini-Ada compilers. (Probably because the syntax is pretty clean for parsing purposes.) But the point wasn't to design a compiler theory class. It was to observe that if someone wants to go off and try implementing an Ada compiler for purposes of education or to try out some theories or simply because they find compiler implementation an interesting hobby - I say don't discourage them. It's a learning exercise that will change them - if not the world. I qualified the comment that if the goal was to supplant something like Gnat, then its tilting at windmills and not really likely to succeed. The effort might be better spent working on some interesting new direction for Gnat to go in. (Porting to new hardware, adding a new capability, etc.) MDC Robert A Duff wrote: > > An Ada compiler is probably not the best choice for a college course. ;-) > > - Bob -- ====================================================================== 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 ======================================================================