Why not gnat Ada in gcc?

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Sep 18, 2000, Gene Montgomery <g.montgomery@gte.net> wrote:

> have wondered why the gnu crew would not have decided to add Ada to
> the already substantial capabilities of GCC

AFAIK, it's because part of GNAT is written in Ada, so you'd need an
Ada compiler to bootstrap it, and few people have one handy.

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