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From: dirk@feles.cs.kuleuven.be. (Dirk Craeynest)
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Subject: Re: ANN: Kickstarter for beginning work on a new open-source Compiler
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In article <bp5enaF87mnU1@mid.individual.net>,
Niklas Holsti  <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid> wrote:
>The way you worded that suggests that Ada/Ed being an interpreter would
>have prevented using it to bootstrap GNAT, but of course that is not so.
>As long as *GNAT* was able to generate an executable, one could have
>used Ada/Ed to execute GNAT (albeit through interpretation) to compile
>the GNAT source code into an executable GNAT.

You are right, of course.  Thanks for correcting.
(I don't know where my mind was when I wrote that.)

Dirk

PS: It would've take "quite" some time to bootstrap, though...