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Subject: Ada to Ada Translator ?
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Xref: reader01.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:56316
Date: 2019-05-17T07:21:55-07:00
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Hi Everyone

My name is Patrick. I have been posting here for years, I am just keep dele=
ting my google accounts because I don't like being spied on.

It's pretty obvious by now that Adacore is trying to make their free, open =
source offerings commercially unfriendly, demo-ware only.

There has also been a lot of discussion about compiler bugs.

You probably already know about this but I just found Ada yacc and flex too=
ls:

https://github.com/Ada-France

I only have 1 to 2 hours a week to program so I won't be able to do very mu=
ch but I think I might have a useful idea and I wanted to share it, maybe p=
eople with more programming time will accomplish more than I can.


Why not use ayacc and aflex to create an Ada source to Ada source translato=
r.

Is there a bug Adacore won't attend to?  Why not re-implement that part of =
the runtime yourself.

I don't think there are any problems with nested subprograms but let's just=
 say there was. Your could run your source through a translator that re-imp=
lemented these using trampolines in pure Ada without using nested sub-progr=
ams and then you could send the output to gnat.

If we all worked together, over time, we might be able to create a new Ada =
compiler that had a BSD/LGPL runtime and no more license games.

I will start this if I can, check back with me in 10 years :)

-Patrick