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Ada is used in a few compiler theory books because of its comprehensiveness and elegance.
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Should there be a section on primary users of a language like ada and how their requirements affected the language?
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::Hmm, I never heard about Ada 80 and I discussed with lots of people involved in early Ada including Jean Ichbiah and people from the Ada/Ed project (first validated Ada compiler). Would you mind naming exactly the documents and compilers? Also point to document about elaboration issues? Thanks. [[User:Guerby|Guerby]] 21:20 17 Jul 2003 (UTC)
::I took the liberty of removing that entire section, not only because of Guerby's concerns, but because a quick search of the Web shows that [http://archive.adaic.com/pol-hist/policy/mandate.txt the Ada Mandate was not signed into law until 1990], so it cannot be blamed for the quality of 1980-era compilers.
::FWIW I have also heard mention that when Ada first came out it demanded things beyond then-current compiler technology, so maybe there is still a need for a section like the one I removed. However, if anyone decides to put such a section back in, please check and document any claims of fact included in the section. - [[User:Bobby D. Bryant|B.Bryant]] 23:40 21 Jul 2003 (UTC)
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