Re: ANN: Kickstarter for beginning work on a new open-source Compiler

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

"Alan Browne" <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> wrote in message 
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> 3. Text.  Nothing wrong with that.  You can ridicule it all you like with 
> quotations, but it is the lowest common denominator.  Strawmen arguments 
> like EOL and character sets is just distraction - such are easily 
> fixed/translated if not handled automatically.

Plus *wrong* for Ada 2012 -- the language standard specifies a standard text 
format that all Ada compilers must support (see my other message). We even 
specified how line endings are interpreted in that text format, so there is 
not problem whatsoever with interpreting code in that format. Moreover, the 
vast majority of existing Ada source code is already in that format (code in 
7-bit Ascii is encoded the same way in UTF-8), the line ending match the 
standard way that Windows and Linux represent text.

Obviously, one can have problems with weird source representations, as those 
are allowed but not required. But all an IDE has to do to avoid them is to 
make it hard to save text in non-standard formats.

                          Randy.