From: Norman Worth <nworth@comcastNOSPAM.net>
Subject: Re: Why *.adb and *.ads?
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2018 08:45:09 -0700
Date: 2018-01-27T08:45:09-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <sr-dnX5CE7MbA_HHnZ2dnUU7-YPNnZ2d@giganews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ef3c5e22-3f43-473a-9852-232d4196ba2a@googlegroups.com>
Andrew Shvets wrote:
> I'm curious, why do the source files in Ada have the file endings of *.ads and *.adb? Is there a reason for this? Or any background story?
>
This has nothing to do with the Ada language. It is a characteristic of
the GNAT Ada compiler, which is probably the most common Ada compiler.
Other compilers may use other tags to identifier their source files.
I've seen .ada commonly.
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-01 20:15 Why *.adb and *.ads? Andrew Shvets
2018-01-01 21:00 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2018-01-02 1:50 ` Mace Ayres
2018-01-02 1:27 ` Mace Ayres
2018-01-27 15:45 ` Norman Worth [this message]
2018-01-27 16:37 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2018-01-27 22:18 ` [OT] VMS editors and PC keyboards, was: " Simon Clubley
2018-01-27 16:40 ` Mace Ayres
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