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Subject: Re: No call for Ada (was Re: Announcing new scripting/prototyping
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In article <naNYb.6433$Cd6.542558@news20.bellglobal.com>, "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <warren@ve3wwg.tk> writes:

> It would be useful to have such an Open Sourced version of the same
> (or a flavour of GNAT). It could then be used as a bootstrap
> compiler for GNAT on new platforms. You would of course have to
> do a lot of Ada runtime library support at the C level as well,
> but for a bootstrap compiler, this could be minimized I think.

For bootstrapping purposes, the compiler need not be open source,
since when you are done none of the original compiler would remain
and the result of your work could be distributed under whatever
terms you choose.