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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 2002:a02:a999:: with SMTP id q25-v6mr8270967jam.31.1529446739758; Tue, 19 Jun 2018 15:18:59 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 2002:aca:1a18:: with SMTP id a24-v6mr785628oia.5.1529446739517; Tue, 19 Jun 2018 15:18:59 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!feeder4.usenet.farm!feed.usenet.farm!feeder.usenetexpress.com!feeder-in1.iad1.usenetexpress.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!u78-v6no494269itb.0!news-out.google.com!c20-v6ni226itc.0!nntp.google.com!d7-v6no484121itj.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2018 15:18:59 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87tvpy5tcy.fsf@jacob-sparre.dk> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=2a02:c7d:3c35:b000:325a:3aff:fe0f:37a5; posting-account=L2-UcQkAAAAfd_BqbeNHs3XeM0jTXloS NNTP-Posting-Host: 2a02:c7d:3c35:b000:325a:3aff:fe0f:37a5 References: <584564c2-9f64-4965-b045-535cdaf899c0@googlegroups.com> <87tvpy5tcy.fsf@jacob-sparre.dk> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Why are Ada compilers difficult to write ? From: Lucretia Injection-Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2018 22:18:59 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:53179 Date: 2018-06-19T15:18:59-07:00 List-Id: On Tuesday, 19 June 2018 23:01:02 UTC+1, Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote: > And finally, I suspect the fact that there is an actual validation test > suite makes it hard to get away with claiming that something is an Ada > compiler, if it doesn't implement the whole language. Subsets are allowed now via pragma Restrictions and pragma Profile, so that's no longer true.