On Fri, 19 Jun 2026 at 17:41, J. David Bryan via cctalk <[email protected]> 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
