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From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Question Re: Configuration Management
Message-ID: <2745@mmintl.UUCP>
Date: 1 Mar 88 21:01:04 GMT
References: <497@aimt.UUCP> <2640@ihlpe.ATT.COM> <188@dinl.mmc.UUCP> <2323@geac.UUCP> <697@cresswell.quintus.UUCP>
Reply-To: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Organization: Multimate International, E. Hartford, CT.
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Keywords: linkers, software design, Unix as a religion

In article <697@cresswell.quintus.UUCP> ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
|We could profitably turn this into a survey of what the linker
|requirements of various languages are:  could an ADA compiler easily
|use the UNIX / VMS / MVS / PR1MOS linker?

In a word, no.  A linker for Ada must check for matching of user-defined
types in different modules.
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