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Re: Why not gnat Ada in gcc?
- To: law at redhat dot com
- Subject: Re: Why not gnat Ada in gcc?
- From: Toon Moene <toon at moene dot indiv dot nluug dot nl>
- Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 22:13:03 +0100
- CC: Robert Dewar <dewar at gnat dot com>, dstarner98 at aasaa dot ofe dot org,kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, rms at gnu dot org
- Organization: Moene Computational Physics, Maartensdijk, The Netherlands
- References: <14971.973134481@upchuck>
Jeffrey A Law wrote:
>
> In message <20001102025839.62E9B34DAF@nile.gnat.com>you write:
> > The front ends for modern compilers are remarkably complex, so it is not
> > surprising that in both the case of GNAT and g++ the number of significant
> > contributors to the front end will remain small.
> I disagree about the complexity keeping the number of developers small.
> We have more active C++ developers now than ever, most have become active
> since GCC development was opened up. Similarly for the rest of the compiler.
I'm sorry but I have to agree with Jeff here (Well, OK, perhaps I'm not
really sorry :-)
GNU Fortran 95 is certainly a "complex frontend" but the contributions
on the sourceforge mailing list (see URL below) are lively, even though
intermittent, and the number of people contributing is steadily
climbing.
Of course, it helps that its development is completely open, not in the
least because no one has a vested interest in keeping changes "hidden".
Cheers,
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