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From: Natasha Kerensikova <lithiumcat@instinctive.eu>
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Subject: Re: Ada platforms and pricing, was: Re: a new language, designed
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Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 17:34:35 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2014-06-18, J-P. Rosen <rosen@adalog.fr> wrote:
> Le 18/06/2014 09:09, Natasha Kerensikova a écrit :
>> Anyway, I'm willing to contribute a lot of my free time to help a new
>> free Ada compiler emerge, ideally a LLVM front-end written from scratch
>> in Ada, bootstrapped by FSF GNAT, licenced under BSD or Apache or
>> something like that.
>
> You may not have to start from scratch. Pick-up the Gela-ASIS project
> (currently sleeping) and fix what's missing. That will give you a
> stand-alone implementation of ASIS, that could be used to generate code
> from.

I wasn't aware of that. Suddenly the idea of a second free Ada compiler
seems within human grasp \o/

For some reason I'm much more frightened by parsing Ada text than by
code generation. I know the latter is probably not easier than the
former (I'm aware of LLVM vs nested functions), but who said fright is
rational?

> You may even find people at your working place to help you in such an
> endeavour ;-)
>
How wonderful a working place this is :-)


Natasha