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Συντάκτης: David Billsbrough
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Προς: karl
Υ/ο: dng
Παλιά Θέματα: Re: [DNG] Why C/C++ ?
Αντικείμενο: Re: [DNG] Why C/C++ ? or any other legacy language
Hello old timers,

With much referencing legacy languages and manuals, I had to check out how long to get a working compiler to test out on a current Linux
installation. It sounded like a challenge:

<gnat installed>

kc4zvw@www:~$ gnat --version
GNAT 10.5.0
Copyright (C) 1996-2020, Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

kc4zvw@www:~$

https://area51specialprojects.dev/ada_gnat.html { proof of output }

regards,

David
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David - KC4ZVW
Chuluota, FL
https://www.kc4zvw.org/


> Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2024 at 2:12 PM
> From: karl@???
> To: dng@???
> Subject: Re: [DNG] Why C/C++ ?


> Didier Kryn:


>> First Ada is not that ancient: it is newer than C (~: . Algol-60 was
>> the ancestor of Algol-68 which was the ancestor of Pascal, which was the
>> ancestor of Ada around the 80's. I saw a first manual in 1987, but there
>> was still no compiler at that time.
> ...


> My ref.manual is printed in Sweden in 1983. I attended a course in Ada
> where we programmed in Ada and run the programs, it was mid-80's.
> There was a guy (the course teacher) there at the university at Uppsala
> who was into Ada. It might been an interpreter we used but I guess not,
> don't remember the details.


> Regards,
> /Karl Hammar