Anyone interested in resurrecting an open source strict Ada 83 (mil-std 1815A) compiler?

[Lucretia]

@jere

On my end, I am just enjoying reading your journey updates. I myself have toyed with the idea, but I definitely lack the skill

I don’t necessarily lack the skill as I’ve always been interested in compilers and wanted to tailor my degree to that, but that didn’t turn out too well…

@LionelDraghi

But I am more interested by Randy approach I saw today on comp.lang.ada (it’s maybe an old post), thinking on what traits of the language could be removed or changed to get a great simplification without to much functional loss.
Maybe it’s time to assume abandoning the upward compatibility, and create a new language.

This is something I’ve been arguing for for god know how many years, but Randy and others have always been reluctant refused point blank to do this. Can you point me to the post? My machine died so the one I’m using (which is really kind of painful and laggy to use) doesn’t have usenet, so needs to be a web archive.

Maybe Orenda Titania could fill that void as someone (pyj) is working on an LLVM front end which I was going to try years ago.

@pyj

Considering the above, I have no idea how far I’m going to get. I wasn’t going to tell anybody, but figured I’d say something since I’m starting to test emitted LLVM IR with bbt now, and folks have asked for a new front-end especially with LLVM many times.

Can you put it up somewhere, I’d be interested in taking a look, as I have a project which I was going to build into mine which will be an external tool first and I’d like to be able to test it with a real compiler.