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Subject: Re: ISO: The Eiffel OO programming language and IDE, on VMS
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2025 19:57:36 -0400
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On 3/29/2025 2:44 PM, Chris Townley wrote:
> On 29/03/2025 18:19, Waldek Hebisch wrote:
>> 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 can do a lot of things.

But I believe the "standard" is to generate native
object code.

Arne