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From: "Ed Falis" <falis@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: ridiculous question
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:41:35 GMT
Date: 2008-06-25T15:41:35+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <op.uda9vljo5afhvo@naropa> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 37265dcc-6d87-4c9d-b3e6-d6a15c6bc75d@x35g2000hsb.googlegroups.com

On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:27:04 -0400, Ludovic Brenta  
<ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> wrote:

> Jean-Pierre Rosen wrote:
>> Long time ago, there was an Ada compiler on a Symbolics machine, which
>> was a Lisp machine. Long, long time ago...
>
> Maybe the OP was referring to a compiler front-end written in Lisp
> that would parse Ada sources? Was the Ada compiler you describe like
> that?

The prototype Ada compiler I worked on at Stanford had its front-end  
written in MacLisp.  It was a very effective vehicle for working with the  
abstract syntax tree.



  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-25 15:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-24 21:57 ridiculous question raould
2008-06-24 22:18 ` Ludovic Brenta
2008-06-24 23:02 ` anon
2008-06-25 14:59   ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2008-06-25 15:27     ` Ludovic Brenta
2008-06-25 15:41       ` Ed Falis [this message]
2008-06-26  5:48       ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2008-06-26  8:02         ` anon
2008-06-25 15:19   ` Adam Beneschan
2008-06-24 23:33 ` Ivan Levashew
2008-07-04 18:47 ` Colin Paul Gloster
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