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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: ADA CORE TECHNOLOGIES ANNOUNCES GNAT-TO-JAVA SYSTEM
Date: 1997/09/17
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Date: 1997-09-17T00:00:00+00:00
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Tucker said

<<The AdaMagic front end was written in ANSI C.  One reason was to avoid
the bootstrapping problem, which was profound for us since we
weren't building a general purpose backend, and we wanted to be the
first to validate an Ada 95 compiler (albeit for a 24-bit embedded
target).>>

I don't see your point here. if your compiler is an Ada compiler written
in C, it cannot be bootstrapped anyway. Furthermore, your first target
was clearly a cross compiler, so you could have chosen any host for which
an Ada 83 compiler was available.

I understand there may be other reasons, but I don't quite see this 
reason ...