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From: "Chad R. Meiners" <crmeiners@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: No call for Ada (was Re: Announcing new scripting/prototyping
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"Jerry Coffin" <jcoffin@taeus.com> wrote in message
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> > > As such, Ada is useless relative to that
> > > platform, regardless of how much merit it might have in theory.
> >
> > Not exactly true.  There exist Ada to ANSI C compilers so you can make
use
> > of Ada's compile time benefits for such platforms.
>
> Also rarely true

Even if it is rarely true, it proves that your above statement is false.
Perhaps that is not what you intended to say, but it is what you wrote.

> -- for better or worse, the "ANSI C" compilers on many
> obscure (especially embedded) systems are "ANSI C" only by courtesy --

courtesy?  An ANSI C compiler that doesn't compile ANSI C is incorrect.

<snip>

> In many cases, the editing that would be involved to make it work would
> theoretically be pretty trivial.

In the trivial cases the backend for the translator can be modified by the
vendor.