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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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Subject: Re: GC in Ada
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 08:38:20 -0500
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Jean-Pierre Rosen <rosen@adalog.fr> writes:

> Robert A Duff a �crit :
>> Jean-Pierre Rosen <rosen@adalog.fr> writes:
>> I think it's fair to say that Ada-ED was the first validated
>> implementation of Ada 83, and that the Rolm-Data General implementation
>> was the first validated Ada compiler for Ada 83.
>>
> I fail to see why Ada-ED does not deserve the name "compiler". 

Because the Ada-ED implementation was highly interpretive.

>...I may
> admit that Rolm was the first /industrial/ compiler, i.e. usable for
> real programs...

- Bob