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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Difference between ADA and c++
Date: 1997/08/24
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Date: 1997-08-24T00:00:00+00:00
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Dale says

<<Gnat does have a program library, just as Intermetrics also has
a program library. The library just happens to be implemented as
a series of source code files, and not some mysterious black box
piece of software.

List through the requirements of such a library, and you'll find
that the source code model can meet them.>>


Actually we really should stop using the term program library, since it
is an Ada 83 term.

Also, the compilation environment in GNAT is not quite a set of sources,
there is additional information, including the gnat.adc file, and ali
and object files in some cases (you can have a consistent compialtion
environment in which some of the units are precompiled, and their
sources are not available).