Re: VC++ Compiler idioms manifest

From: David J. Craig (SeniorDriversWriter_at_shogunyoshimuni.com.net)
Date: 09/08/04 

Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 07:20:34 -0400

I am referring to the PC platform. They had compliant compilers, but they
didn't implement all the multi-tasking which I think is preemptive. It also
takes a lot of memory and I saw it when it was still MS-DOS 2.x. I was at
the Air Force Design Center at Gunter, Montgomery, Alabama where most of
that was introduced. I still think it was much later when a compiler with
all capabilities was done for the PC platform, but I left before it became
required there.

"Don Burn" <burn@stopspam.acm.org> wrote in message
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> Sorry, the ten year tail is incorrect. The 4 proposals for ADA were
> reviewed in 1978, I can't remember when the first revision of the language
> definition was, but it was roughly 1-2 years later. There were at least 2
> different compliant ADA compilers by 1984.
> The language has changed since then, but it never took 10 years.
>
>
> --
> Don Burn (MVP, Windows DDK)
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> "David J. Craig" <SeniorDriversWriter@shogunyoshimuni.com.net> wrote in
> message news:O3sZWtYlEHA.536@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>> No, C++ is easy compare to Ada. A full compliant Ada compiler took over
> ten
>> years before one was written that implemented all features. It has
>> almost
>> every feature from every language ever used before. I heard one vendor
> call
>> it "a compiler writer's nightmare".
>>
>> "Arnaud Debaene" <adebaene@club-internet.fr> wrote in message
>> news:eeKXqdYlEHA.3476@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>> > Jacky Luk wrote:
>> >> as I want to build a VC++ alike compiler for my
>> >> own use
>> >
>> > Honestly, this is almost impossible for one single person, especially
>> > if
>> > you don't have experience in compiler writing. You should begin with
>> > something simplier that C++ (possibly the most complicated language,
> from
>> > the compiler writer perspective).
>> >
>> > Arnaud
>> > MVP - VC
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>
>

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