Re: No call for Ada (was Re: Announcing new scripting/prototyping language)

From: Martin Dowie (martin.dowie_at_btopenworld.com)
Date: 02/10/04 

Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 14:11:16 +0000 (UTC)

"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote in message
news:22jh209rupt9e957iloaus9fn34ofm0qt3@4ax.com...
> >Not quite...
> >...they share a back-end - GNAT does NOT translate Ada source into C as
an
> >intermediate.
>
> Yes of course, GNU C is just a name of a set of compilers. Important
> is that the back-end is same, so it is unlikely for GNAT to be slower
> than GNU C. Theoretically Ada as a language should allow better
> optimization than C.

For total pedantry, GCC is the name for the set of compilers, GNU C is
one element in this set.

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