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: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!reality.xs3.de!news.jacob-sparre.dk!loke.jacob-sparre.dk!pnx.dk!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Randy Brukardt" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada platforms and pricing, was: Re: a new language, designed for safety ! Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 22:35:54 -0500 Organization: Jacob Sparre Andersen Research & Innovation Message-ID: References: <1402308235.2520.153.camel@pascal.home.net> <85ioo9yukk.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <255b51cd-b23f-4413-805a-9fea3c70d8b2@googlegroups.com> <5ebe316d-cd84-40fb-a983-9f953f205fef@googlegroups.com> <2100734262424129975.133931laguest-archeia.com@nntp.aioe.org> <857442918424729589.090275laguest-archeia.com@nntp.aioe.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: static-69-95-181-76.mad.choiceone.net X-Trace: loke.gir.dk 1403148954 25378 69.95.181.76 (19 Jun 2014 03:35:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@jacob-sparre.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 03:35:54 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:20441 Date: 2014-06-18T22:35:54-05:00 List-Id: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" wrote in message news:erb49jp6qy6n$.5cesca6do7x3$.dlg@40tude.net... ... > Semantic analysis is a hell. Agreed here. > Code generation, optimization is a hell within hell, IMO. Naw, that's fun. Much more predicable than dealing with Ada semantics (or any language semantics, for that matter). If I had my druthers, that's all I'd do. Unfortunately, there's little possibility of that in modern systems, all of the fun is in the GCC and LLVM backends. Sigh. Randy.