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From: casey@gauss.llnl.gov (Casey Leedom)
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Subject: Re: Gnu Languages
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Date: 10 Dec 89 21:56:09 GMT
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| From: rms@ai.mit.edu
| 
| Volunteers are currently working on front ends for Pascal and Fortran.
| There may be volunteers working on a Modula front end; I'm not sure.  I
| am looking for volunteers for languages such as Ada and Cobol.

  Does this mean that we're getting closer to having the front- and back-
end code to GCC split into separate physical entities so it's easy to
write new front ends?  The current situation with G++ is somewhat messy.