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0 pointsthesuperbigfrog5y ago0 comments

>> Perhaps companies and individual with an interest in a permissively licensed Ada ecosystem should step up and create it? Build it on top of LLVM and call it, say, alang.

If it is an Ada implementation, why wouldn't they call it Ada rather than alang?

If the language implements the Ada standard (http://www.ada-auth.org/standards/rm12_w_tc1/html/RM-TOC.htm...), it is Ada, regardless of how the particular implementation is licensed.

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jabl5y ago· 1 in thread

> If it is an Ada implementation, why wouldn't they call it Ada rather than alang?

In the same way that "the" C/C++ LLVM frontend is called clang and the Fortran frontend is called flang. So a hypothetical Ada frontend could be called alang.

> If the language implements the Ada standard (http://www.ada-auth.org/standards/rm12_w_tc1/html/RM-TOC.htm...), it is Ada, regardless of how the particular implementation is licensed.

I wasn't arguing against that, but, yes I agree.

thesuperbigfrogOP5y ago

I understand now.

It would be the alang Ada compiler similar to the clang C compiler.

Thank you for clarifying.

Lucretia95y ago

> If it is an Ada implementation, why wouldn't they call it Ada rather than alang?

A serious lack of imagination, re clang, flang, etc.

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