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=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,99d4d47ae8700971 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news1.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!cycny01.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!gnilink.net!trndny02.POSTED!c2bfcbcf!not-for-mail Subject: Re: ridiculous question From: "Ed Falis" Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=utf-8 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <273ba3a6-142b-4e05-bc12-d576968fa6b6@x19g2000prg.googlegroups.com> <3gmt3g.jqh.ln@hunter.axlog.fr> <37265dcc-6d87-4c9d-b3e6-d6a15c6bc75d@x35g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.50 (Linux) Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:41:35 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 71.184.110.46 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: trndny02 1214408495 71.184.110.46 (Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:41:35 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:41:35 EDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:877 X-Original-Bytes: 1564 Date: 2008-06-25T15:41:35+00:00 List-Id: On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:27:04 -0400, Ludovic Brenta 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.