Re: Choosing a language for compiler design

rgh@shellus.com (Richard G. Hash)
1 Nov 1996 19:25:08 -0500

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From: rgh@shellus.com (Richard G. Hash)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 1 Nov 1996 19:25:08 -0500
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 96-10-075
Keywords: tools, Ada

[Depends what your goals are. If it's maximum portability, write it in C.


Our esteemed moderator surely erred here and meant "Ada" for maximum
portability. If you look at porting the actual source code, there is no
comparison. If you look at compiler availability, this has certainly been
vastly improved by the GNU Ada compiler, which is available on practically
every popular platform (and is a pretty dang good compiler).


(Look at any reasonably large C program - those #ifdefs don't insert
themselves!!)


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[Well, there's probably more machines with installed C compilers, but your
point is well taken. -John]


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