From: faust <urfaust@optushome.com.au>
Subject: Re: Why would it take so long to write an Ada compiler?
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 10:54:04 -0800
Date: 2002-12-21T10:54:04-08:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a6e90v4sto8qt44ocs559su0ddj2pe7um6@4ax.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: MPG.1865cca835f2ccee98991a@News.CIS.DFN.DE
Mike <spamnotme@invalid.com> , emitted these fragments:
>
>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?
Read Hoare's Turing Award lecture, "The Emperor's new clothes".
He argues that it is because of the ad hoc way and unprincipled way
features were added onto what finally became Ada.
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of this pain-filled world.
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2002-12-14 22:47 Why would it take so long to write an Ada compiler? Mike
2002-12-15 22:17 ` 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 [this message]
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