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> De : Team Ada: Ada Advocacy Issues (83 & 95) [mailto:[log in to unmask]]De
> la part de Roger Racine
> Envoyé : vendredi 3 décembre 1999 14:32
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> Objet : Re: What the competition looks like
> This whole discussion does not say much for us Ada advocates. It is very
> difficult to sell Ada when the keeper of the Ada repository truly believes
> it is not the right language to teach, because the tools are not up to his
> standards.
>
> Not only that, but it is difficult to argue that Ada is the most portable
> language, since an easy comeback is "What language is used for the
> compiler?". The Intermetrics front end is in C. The GNAT back end is in
> C. "Why?" Portability.
That is certainly not the explanation here.
I would say that the GNAT back end is in C because GNAT uses the GCC backend
which is in C, has always been in C and was in C many years before GNAT came
to life !
Pascal.
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