<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Oct 1, 2024 at 10:07 AM <<a href="mailto:arnold@skeeve.com">arnold@skeeve.com</a>> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br></div><div>[regarding writing an Ada compiler as a class project]</div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Did you do generics? That and the run time, which had some real-time<br>
bits to it (*IIRC*, it's been a long time), as well as the cross<br>
object code type checking, would have been real bears.<br>
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Like many things, the first 90% is easy, the second 90% is hard. :-)<br>
<br></blockquote><div>I was in DEC's compiler group when they were implementing Ada for VAX/VMS. It gets very tricky when routine libraries are involved. Just figuring out the compilation order can be a real bear (part of this is the cross object code type checking you mention).</div><div><br></div><div>From my viewpoint Ada suffered two problems. First, it was such a large language and very tricky to implement--even more so than PL/I. Second, it had US Government cooties.<br></div><div><br></div><div>-Paul W.<br></div></div></div>