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From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org>
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Subject: Re: Outrageous Thoughts on Ada Compilers.
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 12:52:16 -0600
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On 2/23/2016 11:03 AM, Pascal Obry wrote:

>
> No GNAT is written in Ada. Now that depends what you count. As you
> probably know GNAT is part of GCC which is written in C.

btw, gcc switched to c++, as of 4.8

https://lwn.net/Articles/542457/
"GCC's move to C++"

http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/03/22/2126235/gcc-480-release-marks-completion-of-c-migration?sdsrc=rel
""GCC 4.8.0 has been released (download), and with it, the developers of
the GNU Compiler Collection have switched to C++ as the implementation language,"

etc...