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From: Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
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On 03/21/2014 10:48 PM, J-P. Rosen wrote:
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> FYI, Gnat was always written in Ada, bootstrapped from the Alsys compiler.

IIRC, the Alsys compiler was also written in Ada, though initially an Ada-to-PL1 
translator was used until the compiler could compile itself.

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