From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
Subject: Re: GNAT Question
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 18:39:42 -0600
Date: 2001-03-20T18:39:42-06:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <hMSt6.5238$7e6.1935855@homer.alpha.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: wcclmq0ozkf.fsf@world.std.com
Robert A Duff wrote in message ...
>cts@kampong.aedinc.net ((null)) writes:
>
>> Just curious, does anyone out there know about how many man-years
>> it might take to write an Ada compiler?
>
>If you have people who really know Ada well, and know how to write
>compilers, I'd guess about 10 person-years to get something minimal
>working (not much optimization, not many optional extras).
I would have said double that. Janus/Ada 83 took about 18 person-years,
and Ada 95 is a lot larger. Sure, *I* could write an Ada 95 compiler
from scratch in less time than that (having done it already), but why
would I want to? I'd rather improve the current one.
Randy.
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Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-03-20 16:25 GNAT Question chris.danx
2001-03-20 19:12 ` Ted Dennison
2001-03-20 19:37 ` Gisle Sælensminde
2001-03-30 20:19 ` Stefan Skoglund
2001-03-20 20:40 ` Hans-Olof Danielsson
2001-03-20 20:49 ` (null)
2001-03-20 21:11 ` chris.danx
2001-03-20 21:55 ` Ted Dennison
2001-03-20 22:10 ` chris.danx
2001-03-20 22:41 ` Ted Dennison
2001-03-20 23:03 ` chris.danx
2001-03-21 9:30 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2001-03-20 22:17 ` Robert A Duff
2001-03-21 0:39 ` Randy Brukardt [this message]
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2002-08-11 22:59 GNAT question Fred Stihler
2002-08-12 2:56 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-12 12:33 ` Fred Stihler
2002-08-12 4:37 ` tmoran
2002-08-12 12:37 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-12 23:48 ` Fred Stihler
2002-08-12 18:35 ` tmoran
2002-08-12 23:51 ` Robert Dewar
2000-08-10 0:00 gnat question gregfisher
2000-08-11 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-08-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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