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From: "J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr>
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Subject: Re: Ada noob here! Is Ada widely used?
Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 18:15:40 +0200
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Georg Bauhaus a écrit :
> Yes.  Ada/Ed, though, being an Ada 83 interpreter, being
> written in SETL, not C, and being prototypical for GNAT,
> indicates that C is not necessarily the single language for
> writing high class compilers---as some have implied.
> I'm sure you know that is the case for some other languages,
> too.
In most programming languages, there is a relation between the structure
of the language itself and the kind of data it handles best. For this
reason, and others like ease of porting, it is generally a good idea to
write the compiler in its own language, safe for special cases like
initial bootstrapping.
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