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Subject: Re: How to get Ada to ?cross the chasm??
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Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid> writes:
> It is easy to embed a DSL in Ada, and use the Ada compiler on it.

Maybe reasonable some of the time, maybe even in the case of the CBSG.
The CBSG takes around 7 seconds to compile on a fairly fast box and has
around 100KB of code of which maybe 80% is phrases.  An occasional
update taking 7 seconds is probably ok.  My smallest actively used
(virtual) server has 64MB of ram, which can probably host GNAT.

I won't contrive a scenario of wanting to run the CBSG on an MCU.  Still
though, it seems marginal.  The approach wouldn't scale to something
like a routing table, which can be MBs in size and updated many times a
second, but would want a DSL of its own.