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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: No call for Ada (was Re: Announcing new scripting/prototyping
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In article <70vZb.116$nd2.3561@news20.bellglobal.com>, "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <warren@ve3wwg.tk> writes:
> Larry Kilgallen wrote:
>> In article <naNYb.6433$Cd6.542558@news20.bellglobal.com>, "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <warren@ve3wwg.tk> writes:
>>>It would be useful to have such an Open Sourced version of the same
>>>(or a flavour of GNAT). It could then be used as a bootstrap
>>>compiler for GNAT on new platforms. You would of course have to
>>>do a lot of Ada runtime library support at the C level as well,
>>>but for a bootstrap compiler, this could be minimized I think.
>> 
>> For bootstrapping purposes, the compiler need not be open source,
>> since when you are done none of the original compiler would remain
>> and the result of your work could be distributed under whatever
>> terms you choose.
> 
> Agreed, but an "Open Sourced" bootstrap compiler would
> allow _that_ compiler to be compiled by GCC,

So would _any_ compiler to which someone who cares has source.
"Not Open Source" is different from "Nobody Has Source".