From: Robert Dewar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2007 18:40:56 -0400
> David Miller wrote: > > > But we don't need a fortran compiler to compile the gfortran compiler, > > and we don't need a c++ compiler to compile the g++ compiler, and we > > don't even need a java compiler to compile the gcj compiler. > > That's because they are written in C The MONO C# compiler is written in C#, and amazingly they make it work somehow that you can bootstrap without having a C# compiler. > > Sorry, I just couldn't resist. This justification for the ADA > > situation is just about as absurd as it gets :) > > Well the GNAT front end is written in Ada, there is no magic > available for compiling Ada without an Ada compiler! You can do it, MONO C# can. > Well as long as you have a C compiler to compile g++, you can obviously > deal with C++ code, but there is no getting around that for GNAT > given that the front end is coded in Ada! MONO can do it, so could ADA. The trick is to have a program that, even if massively suboptimal, can compile ADA code for the purposes of bootstrapping the ADA compiler and is written in C.
