20 Jun
2026
20 Jun
'26
8:09 a.m.
On Fri, 19 Jun 2026 at 17:41, J. David Bryan via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
I don't think you're wrong regarding an early Ada compiler that generated C
code. I seem to recall such a beast too, although I can't lay my hands on
a reference.
As a (possibly related) datapoint - the Gould UTX-32 systems at City
University London ~1987 had a "pac" compiler which IIRC compiled
Pascal and Ada to (eye watering) C code, and then compiled that to
PowerNode code.
Unrelated - I remember thinking that the filesystem layout having
space for 64 bit timestamps was quite forward thinking :)
David