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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: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 07:26:04 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2014-06-18, Lucretia <laguest9000@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, 18 June 2014 18:34:35 UTC+1, Natasha Kerensikova  wrote:
>> 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
>
> Parsing wouldn't be hard. It's the semantics that would be the hardest
> part, imo.

I'm not sure about how much to mean by "semantics", but I would expect
the runtime system to be harder than the ASIS-to-LLVM-intermediate-form
part.

Anyway, I wasn't talking about how difficult stuff is, but how
frightening it is. I would start a difficult project that I understand
and guess how to move forwards, even for decades; while I would start an
easier project when I have no idea on how to tackle it.


Natasha