"Dennis Lee Bieber" <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> a �crit dans le message news: a8olf7$enj$3@nntp9.atl.mindspring.net...
>         But didn't the old NYU Ada/Ed translator go via C?
No. It generated code for a virtual machine, that was then interpreted. The *interpreter* (in its ultimate version) was written in
C.

>         Didn't I read somewhere that GNAT started life as the NYU Ada/Ed system
> mated to the GNU GCC complex?
>
No, but it was written by the same people, so a lot of experience gained from Ada/Ed went into Gnat, but no code AFAIK.

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