Notices by Cole B. (csb6@mastodon.social)

@clacke Just stumbled across this - GNAT was bootstrapped from a proprietary Ada compiler (from Alsys) until it got to the point where it could self-host. See https://usenet.ada-lang.io/comp.lang.ada/5ee5b646.0202250655.6fd2bfb8@posting.google.com/

@clacke The only example of a real language with its initial implementation written in Ada that I know of is the ParaSail language. (https://github.com/parasail-lang/parasail) It was designed by the lead designer of Ada 95 and subsequent Ada standards so no surprise that he picked it. I suspect most language designers use the language they are most familiar with and that is rarely Ada