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!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.unit0.net!news.nask.pl!news.nask.org.pl!newsfeed.pionier.net.pl!pwr.wroc.pl!news.wcss.wroc.pl!not-for-mail From: antispam@math.uni.wroc.pl Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Why are Ada compilers difficult to write ? Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 16:44:47 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Politechnika Wroclawska Message-ID: References: <584564c2-9f64-4965-b045-535cdaf899c0@googlegroups.com> <7cb22c58-3009-47f0-8fe7-62f3cd61785d@googlegroups.com> <52b14af1-ee0a-40af-871a-beeced6bce1c@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: hera.math.uni.wroc.pl X-Trace: z-news.wcss.wroc.pl 1529685887 27958 156.17.86.1 (22 Jun 2018 16:44:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@news.pwr.wroc.pl NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 16:44:47 +0000 (UTC) Cancel-Lock: sha1:wfmtdMkxy/18j80G5tj50yl+AfE= User-Agent: tin/2.4.1-20161224 ("Daill") (UNIX) (Linux/4.17.2 (x86_64)) Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:53256 Date: 2018-06-22T16:44:47+00:00 List-Id: Dan'l Miller wrote: > On Thursday, June 21, 2018 at 5:44:41 AM UTC-5, Marius Amado-Alves wrote: > > The stated opposites to Ada were C and Pascal, not C++. I suspect a C++ compiler is as hard to make as an > > Ada one. Or even harder, because of the much higher grade of kludginess. > > I am pretty sure that the OP was saying by implication Pascal-family or C-family compiler. (And I would categorize Java, J++, and C# as all C-esque in syntax, but decisively outside the C family philosophically & semantically.) Has any new (not-coursework) commercial or FOSS C-proper compiler been written from scratch since, say, 1993 onward? Not to my knowledge. > Hmm, Tiny C and SDCC -- Waldek Hebisch