Re: Heartbleed

["J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr>]

Le 18/04/2014 03:29, Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) a écrit :
> I personally see no requirement for an Ada compiler to be written in
> Ada. A statically typed and modular sufficiently high level language may
> be as much fine as Ada.
There is no requirement of course, but some good reasons to write a
compiler in its own language:

1) There is in general a commonality between a language, its
representation, and the structures it handles best. Representing the
language with its own structures is generally appropriate.

2) It makes porting the compiler to other machines easier (description
of why is to be found in any good book about compilation)

3) Compiling the compiler with itself is an excellent test: the 2nd
compilation should be identical to the third compilation, or there is
something wrong...

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