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   Dan Cross to news@cct-net.co.uk   
   Re: ISO: The Eiffel OO programming langu   
   29 Mar 25 23:59:33   
   
   From: cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net   
      
   In article ,   
   Chris Townley   wrote:   
   >On 29/03/2025 18:19, Waldek Hebisch wrote:   
   >> Simon Clubley  wrote:   
   >> [snip]   
   >> Note that context was porting languages, "classic"   
   >> languages are covered by VSI, so relevant things are   
   >> backends for more exotic languages.  There was recent   
   >> trend to adopt LLVM in such cases, and Julia seem to   
   >> be prominent example of language dependent on LLVM.   
   >> But more popular approach seem to be via custom   
   >> backend or via C.  For example Haskell folks some time   
   >> ago said that LLVM does not really give them advantages   
   >> compared to going via C, and C way is easier.   
   >>   
   >   
   >Isn't that what GNAT does for Ada?   
      
   GNAT is an Ada front end for GCC, along with supporting tools.   
      
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