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"Georg Bauhaus" <bauhaus@futureapps.de> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 2006-01-01 at 23:12 +0000, robin wrote:
>
> > The point is that Ada code can be compiled direct by a
> > PL/I compiler.
>
> Even though it wasn't strictly Ada code, as pointed out,
> what's the point? For sure, Ada can compile C statements,
> Eiffel statements, and Lisp expressions. And I don't mean
> via the standardized Interfaces.* mechanism. Consider
>
> do
> x.foo(42);
> end;
>
> which language is that? It is both Ada, and Eiffel, and
> maybe some more. Though it is not clear that the meaning
> of the translated code will be the same in both languages.
>
> (foo (bar (thr)))
>
> Is this a piece of CommonLISP, or is it C,
> Ada, Algol, Pascal, Modula, Oberon, C++, D, PL/1, ...
>
> The point here is that you are trying to praise
> your language by showing that there is a
> small overlap, mostly syntactically, with some other
> language.

No I'm not trying to do that.
    I'm saying that Ada code can be compiled by a PL/I
compiler, illustrating the versatility of the language.
    I'm not relying on any similarity of statements to achieve that.