From: rose@acm.org   
      
   Tony Finch wrote:   
   >> Heard from ANDF lately?   
   >   
   > I got the impression it died through lack of interest from DERA/QinetiQ   
   > and the OSF, not because of technical failure.   
   >   
   > Of course, now there's LLVM.   
      
   I've long wondered why UNCOL is such a problem, when just about any   
   assembly language you could name is capable of supporting any   
   programming language, limited only, it seems, by address space and the   
   size of the runtime system.   
      
   Any ideas?  Is it just further translation that's the problem?   
      
   Thanks   
      
     - ken   
   [One source language and multiple backends is doable, as is multiple   
   source languages and one backend, which is what you're describing.   
   Heat death ensues when you try to do multi to multi. -John]   
      
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