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Subject: Re: Ada noob here! Is Ada widely used?
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Yannick Duch�ne (Hibou57) wrote:
> 
> Ada compilers, could be written in C or asm ;) But Ada compilers are 
> mostly written in ... Ada, of course. Just look at GNAT sources (big) to 
> have an idea. There may be some tiny C stuff in GNAT Ada implementation 
> or a bit of assembly in Janus Ada implementation, however, all are 
> mostly written in Ada.

The Verdix compiler was started in C and later changed to Ada. This is where the 
comparison in http://www.adaic.org/whyada/ada-vs-c/cada_art.html comes from, one 
of the few hard data points in language comparisons.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"You can never forget too much about C++."
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