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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5faad1722103f6a7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!gnilink.net!nwrdny01.gnilink.net.POSTED!c2bfcbcf!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: 7E7 Flight Controls Electronics References: <90Stc.15309$be.3117@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net> <40b86431$0$186$edfadb0f@dread11.news.tele.dk> <40B888E0.5040707@noplace.com> <40B8C86A.3050302@noplace.com> <40BE6BFD.8030305@noplace.com> <40BF141F.8020001@noplace.com> <40C38E7C.64564F@notes.udayton.edu> Message-ID: From: "Ed Falis" Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=iso-8859-1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Opera M2/7.51 (Linux, build 689) Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 21:22:55 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.160.150.28 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: nwrdny01.gnilink.net 1086816175 68.160.150.28 (Wed, 09 Jun 2004 17:22:55 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 17:22:55 EDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1338 Date: 2004-06-09T21:22:55+00:00 List-Id: On Wed, 09 Jun 2004 17:02:30 -0400, Robert I. Eachus wrote: > AFAIK though, the first Alsys compiler was written in Ada. At one point > was compiled with the DEC Ada compiler. Why? Why not? It saved some > time in bootstraping, and eventually, like GNAT it was self-hosting with > multiple potential target architectures. > A bootstrap compiler was written in PL/1. The real compiler was written in Ada. Alsys and Digital compiled each others' compilers as robustness tests. - Ed