[Aldor-l] Using Aldor or SPAD

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Martin Rubey <martin.rubey at univie.ac.at> writes:

| Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions.net> writes:
| 
| > I've been writing more and more SPAD, less and less Aldor. 
| > And I suspect very soon my students will more SPAD than Aldor, however
| > imperfect SPAD...
| 
| why is that?

Lack of a working compiler that runs on my systems and students'.

I've read suggestions that people should downgrade to older GCC.
This is something I will NOT recommend.
If recent version of GCC cannot work with Aldor, why should I expect
my systems to work properly with older versions of GCC when they
are packaged with recent version of GCC?

| I really can't understand, there are so many things missing in
| spad!

No doubt many things are missing.  But, at least I can build a working
compiler and work with it on my current systems.  I can even show
students how it is programed to work -- however disguisting the
innards may be. 

-- Gaby