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- From: arra@orb.camb.inmet.com (Arra Avakian)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
- Subject: Re: Play 20K expressions again, Sam
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.180517.20788@inmet.camb.inmet.com>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 18:05:17 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep9.161353.5418@seas.gwu.edu> mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman) writes:
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- >A nice consequence of compiler houses writing their stuff in Ada is that
- >the developers really have to know Ada! I believe that will help them
- >better to understand the kinds of programs their customers will write.
- >...
-
- Perhaps even more significant, if the developers bootstrap (compile their
- compiler using their compiler), then you know that their compiler has
- successfully compiled a fairly large and complex application program,
- increasing the liklihood YOUR program will compile and execute without problems.
- (As has been mentioned here before, the ACVC does not serve this purpose!)
-
- Real world test suites are critical to compiler quality, no matter the
- language it compiles or the its implementation language.
- Boostrapping puts a real world test case in the hands of the compiler developer,
- with a very desirable impact on its quality.
-