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Re: anonymous CVS stuff
Philipp Thomas writes:
> On Mon, 26 Jul 1999 20:11:56 +0200 (CEST), "Lieven Marchand"
> <mal@bewoner.dma.be> wrote:
>
> > Front end written in Modula-3. Back end modified gcc.
>
> Which means the same situation as with ADA, i.e we're rather far away
> from ever getting the Frontend into GCC (besides the question of
> transferable ownership) :-(((
>
> Sigh, why do frontend creators seemingly tend to create such
> chicken-and-egg problems, i.e. making prebuilt binaries a necessity
> for bootstrapping ? Anybody got a good answer for this ? I mean
> besides the obvious one, which I don't count as good ;-))
>
<pedant mode=Ada> The language is spelled Ada </pedant>
If they like another language beside C enough to want to write a
compiler for it, perhaps they also want to write their compiler in it?
Besides, almost any language is better for writing compilers than
C. Both the Ada and the Modula-3 front end are far more readable than
the backend.
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Even the MS designers yelped at adding crap to their heap of refuse. Linus