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-Thread: 103376,21960280f1d61e84 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!news4.google.com!homer!news.glorb.com!news-spur1.glorb.com!news.glorb.com!gegeweb.org!news.ecp.fr!oleane.net!oleane!hunter.axlog.fr!nobody From: Jean-Pierre Rosen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GC in Ada Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 09:47:22 +0100 Organization: Adalog Message-ID: References: <1169636785.504223.139630@j27g2000cwj.googlegroups.com> <45c99c24$1@news.post.ch> <45c9bdb8$1@news.post.ch> <6d1iqe.5t1.ln@hunter.axlog.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: mailhost.axlog.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: s1.news.oleane.net 1171270870 12568 195.25.228.57 (12 Feb 2007 09:01:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@oleane.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 09:01:10 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) In-Reply-To: Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:9274 Date: 2007-02-12T09:47:22+01:00 List-Id: Robert A Duff a �crit : >> I fail to see why Ada-ED does not deserve the name "compiler". > > Because the Ada-ED implementation was highly interpretive. > So what? You still have to transform source text into another representation, and do numerous checks at the same time. That's what I call "compiling". -- --------------------------------------------------------- J-P. Rosen (rosen@adalog.fr) Visit Adalog's web site at http://www.adalog.fr