From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com>
Cc: Fergus Henderson <fjh@cs.mu.oz.au>, khalid aggag <khalidaggag@hotmail.com>, gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: A FrontEnd in C++?
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 02:19:00 -0000
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X-SW-Source: 2002-08/msg01168.html

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.