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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Teaching C/C++ from Ada perspective?
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2018 13:45:09 -0500
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"Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org> wrote in message 
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> On 07/05/2018 08:35 PM, Randy Brukardt wrote:
>> "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org> wrote in message
>> news:phj901$3a0$1@dont-email.me...
>>> On 07/04/2018 06:24 PM, Alejandro R. Mosteo wrote:
>>>> On 04/07/2018 17:52, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Yet Ada allows having a library of packages, like DEC Ada had. Your
>>>>
>>>> Ah, I seem to remember that the Meridian Ada compiler in my first year 
>>>> at
>>>> university also had something like that.
>>>
>>> Ada 83 required it.
>>
>> Not really, it's more accurate to say that no one had tried to figure out 
>> an
>> alternative with the needed semantics. That didn't happen until the GNAT
>> people invented source-based translation for Ada (since copied by some 
>> other
>> compilers).
>
> ARM-83 10.4. The Program Library: "[A] library file containing information 
> on the compilation units of the program library must be maintained by the 
> compiler or compiling environment."

Sure, but that can be anything the implementer wants. In early Janus/Ada, it 
was just a collection of files. There'd be no problem mapping the GNAT model 
into a "library" as defined by Ada 83 -- it's just terminology.

                                            Randy.