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On Wednesday, 18 June 2014 18:34:35 UTC+1, Natasha Kerensikova  wrote:

> I wasn't aware of that. Suddenly the idea of a second free Ada compiler
> seems within human grasp \o/
> 
> For some reason I'm much more frightened by parsing Ada text than by

Parsing wouldn't be hard. It's the semantics that would be the hardest part, imo.

> code generation. I know the latter is probably not easier than the
> former (I'm aware of LLVM vs nested functions), but who said fright is
> rational?

You can flatten them out if the code generator doesn't have them.
 
Luke