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=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: border1.nntp.dca3.giganews.com!backlog4.nntp.dca3.giganews.com!border4.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!goblin3!goblin2!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "J-P. Rosen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Augusta: An open source Ada 2012 compiler (someday?) Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 11:49:27 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <1f0a85a6-ea4d-4d30-8537-0ce9063f992a@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 10:49:26 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="23dab0694e4174fdc880833ec67fa650"; logging-data="17242"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19UZyZoka2B9KCpzm6UKnis" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 In-Reply-To: <1f0a85a6-ea4d-4d30-8537-0ce9063f992a@googlegroups.com> Cancel-Lock: sha1:PeiSbpsd5HQNLouyAHrPPZ9ZH+s= X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 X-Original-Bytes: 2181 Xref: number.nntp.dca.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:185218 Date: 2014-03-20T11:49:27+01:00 List-Id: Le 20/03/2014 11:23, Lucretia a écrit : >> I am not as naive as I probably sound. I fully understand that such a >> > project is massive and not likely to actually ever be completed. > As long as you don't expect all the annexes, I don't see why not. > All those who have been involved in an Ada compiler will tell you that it is a lot more difficult than it appears, unless you stick to the Pascal subset and don't care for validation. In the early days of Ada, we have seen compilers announcing proudly that they passed 95% of the validation and that delivery was expected in a few weeks - they never succeeded to pass the remaining 5%. For example, and as a test, make sure you are able to understand the implications of 4.3.3 (a nightmare for code generation), or 13.14, or 3.10.2(3/2)... -- J-P. Rosen Adalog 2 rue du Docteur Lombard, 92441 Issy-les-Moulineaux CEDEX Tel: +33 1 45 29 21 52, Fax: +33 1 45 29 25 00 http://www.adalog.fr