From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5d0710159aafd704 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-01-29 18:35:24 PST Path: nntp.gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!yale.edu!yale!gumby!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!sundog.tiac.net!jdi.tiac.net!ichbiah From: ichbiah@jdi.tiac.net (Jean D. Ichbiah) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada Book Date: Mon, 30 Jan 1995 02:35:24 GMT Organization: JDI Technology, Inc. Message-ID: References: <3g7iff$96i@panix.com> <3gca64$qb9@felix.seas.gwu.edu> <3ggitn$dvm@felix.seas.gwu.edu> <3gh8t9$cak@cronkite.seas.gwu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: jdi.tiac.net X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev B] Date: 1995-01-30T02:35:24+00:00 List-Id: In article <3gh8t9$cak@cronkite.seas.gwu.edu> dobrien@seas.gwu.edu (David O'Brien) writes: >[...] In a way this was bad though. I believe >the language designers would have gotten a little insight by first >implementing an Ada compiler before unleashing that job to others. I >may be wrong, but an Ada compiler can be *quite* hard to implement and >wasn't that way it has taken so long to get good compilers (especially on >small machines like the PC and Mac). >-- David O'Brien (dobrien@seas.gwu.edu) Actually, my team had had experience developing an ancestor of Ada (the language LIS) with essentially the same packaging, separate compilation and representation features. What made compilation simpler is the evolution of machines. When we delivered our first PC compiler (in 1986) the average machine had 1MB of memory so that we had to bundle a 4MB board with the compiler. Four years later, this was no longer necessary since, with the spread of Windows, the smallest machine on the market came with the needed 4MB. Jean D. Ichbiah