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Re: Introduction to Ada

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Post by mdg99 » Wed, Sep 09, 2020, 9:21 AM UTC

Maybe niche is ment for systems that should work properly. The following URL could give an idea: https://www2.seas.gwu.edu/~mfeldman/ada-project-summary.html

Re: Introduction to Ada

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Post by mdg99 » Wed, Sep 09, 2020, 9:24 AM UTC

Maybe niche means systems that should work properly. This URL might give an idea: https://www2.seas.gwu.edu/~mfeldman/ada-project-summary.html

Re: Introduction to Ada

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Post by jmnicolas » Wed, Sep 16, 2020, 6:22 AM UTC

e12e wrote: post #55

dwheeler wrote: post #25

The GNAT Ada compiler is open source, generates good code, and has really good error messages. There's a story behind its development, which I tried to summarize here: https://dwheeler.com/essays/make-it-simple-dewar.html

Thank you for posting that. Especially interesting in light of Walter Bright's comment(s) in this thread. I didn't quite understand why someone who wrote a c++ compiler would think Ada was insurmountable - this adds some context. In my nativité I'd have guessed that writing an Ada compiler was on par with Pascal (but with more types and stuff). This is probably the same (wrong) reasoning by which Mr Bright tricked hi…

> In my nativité

I think you meant "naïveté", what you wrote translates to "nativity" :)