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<b>Moved comments here from main text. Reorganized into threads.</b>--[[:buzco|buzco]]
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Really only used anymore in US Department of Defense stuff. Oh yeah, and Ada95, the most popular Ada compiler actually translates your code to C, then compiles the C. I love that.
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:Do you mean GNAT (GNU Ada Translater) when writing "Ada95"? This is no translater to C any longer but a frontend to the GNU Compiler Collection, as the C or the Java frontends are. By the way, it is _not_ used only by DOD staff and it is a highly capable language. In contrast to the popular misbelief it produces rather fast code (comparable to C).
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:Make that C, C++, Forth, FORTRAN, Java, Objective C and Pascal front ends! May be others! --[[:buzco|buzco]]
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:The team behind Gnat used in the beginning a proprietary Ada compiler and used that to build an compiler which implemented a subset of Ada big enough to support building itself. Now the team left that proprietary compiler in the dust. After that it was a simple matter of extending that they already have while using the base to build the next more evolved version.
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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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Ada has some tastes of Pascal still but not one of the bad ones. --[[:Janet Davis|Janet Davis]]
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