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Re: A FrontEnd in C++?

From: Florian Weimer <fw at deneb dot enyo dot de>
To: Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>
Cc: Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs dot mu dot oz dot au>, khalid aggag <khalidaggag at hotmail dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 11:19:20 +0200
Subject: Re: A FrontEnd in C++?
References: <F37crCgXAC98D6B8MK9000097e3@hotmail.com><20020819074617.GA2010@earth.cs.mu.oz.au><20020819080229.GE14079@codesourcery.com>

Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com> writes:

> Based on the number of problems we have encountered with the Ada front
> end compared to the others, I think that as a matter of project policy
> writing front ends in any language other than C should be discouraged.

Most of the problems with Ada frontend are due to self-hosting, and
not due to using another language instead of C.

References:
- A FrontEnd in C++?
  - From: khalid aggag
- Re: A FrontEnd in C++?
  - From: Fergus Henderson
- Re: A FrontEnd in C++?
  - From: Zack Weinberg

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