Re: EGCS-970929 and GNAT-3.10p?

[Toon Moene <toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl>]

Joel Sherrill wrote:

> On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, Richard Henderson wrote:

>> I heard a story that the first program to be compiled in Ada was
>> a version of Hello World, and it took 76 minutes to build...

>  I have never heard that story but remember that the
>  original Ada language standard was approved in 1983 with
>  the initial request for language proposals dating back
>  into the 70's.  So you are looking at a prototype compiler
>  on at best an early VAX. :)

Heh, heh, _do_ I remember ...  Those discussions in the SIGPLAN  
notices in 78/79 on the Grand Unified Language *), which I read when  
I was a grad physics student (there was no CS department at that  
time, although Tanenbaum had his niche in the Mathematics  
Department, of course).

Fortunately, we know better now: Java !

[ I did play with the thought to build GNAT in combination with g77  
before the EGCS project emerged, simply to get a better grip on the  
regressions g77's backend patches might generate and because people  
were asking us (fortran@gnu.ai.mit.edu) how to build this  
combination.  I gave up on this once I read that the GNAT test suite  
is proprietary ;-( ]

Cheers,
Toon.

*) "Besides, the determined Real Programmer can write FORTRAN  
programs in any language" - Ed Post, Datamation, July '83.