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From: Stachour@HI-MULTICS.ARPA (Paul D. Stachour)
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Subject: Re: A Validated Ada Compiler for the IBM PC/XT!
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Date: Thu, 7-Mar-85 18:24:03 EST
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   Rick (and others):
    --> In reguard to offloading to a PC or elsewhere <--
    Remember that offloading compilations to another machine will not be
that easy in Ada.  It's the separate compilation and library access that
will have to be 'kept-in-sync' also.
    Ada is "more than a language" ("Ada, more than a language" is one of
the talks that I give).  The library managers available on most systems
are inadequate to support good development, only suitable for
single-person or very-small-team efforts.  To do this "right" your
off-loaded-compiler will need access to the "real-library", and most
compilers will not, and cannot, due to their implementation, support
same.  The DDC (Dansk Datamatic Center) family of compilers is one
family that will be able, because of their design, to support same; I
certainly hope that there will be others.  The DDC family does not yet
support this function, nor has DDC promised that they well, but the
potential is there.
    I have a biased interest in the DDC family because the company I
work for, Honeywell, is doing its Ada compilers jointly with DDC.
   ...Paul