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dwheeler on Aug 4, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: The OpenBSD Ada Library

I don't know what you mean by "second tier", it's a well-crafted compiler. It compiles extremely quickly, generally produces excellent binary code, and produces excellent error messages. For a brief discussion about its design, and links to more info, see my post here: https://dwheeler.com/essays/make-it-simple-dewar.html

Tomte on Aug 4, 2019 [–]

Sure it's well-crafted. It's second tier in GCC, though. How many GCC developers do you think are comfortable in that part of the compiler?

pjmlp on Aug 4, 2019 | [–]

The same amount that are comfortable across Fortran, C, C++, Go and D, plus the experimental branches from Modula-2 and Pascal.

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