From: Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com>
Subject: Re: C++ to Ada translator?
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 09:37:06 -0400
Date: 2002-09-19T09:37:06-04:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1032442508.973403@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: wccu1kn9gwt.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com
Robert A Duff wrote:
> But I think the way to judge these things is to think about what a good
> human programmer would write in Ada
It's likely that the human would have done a completely different
design, playing to the strengths of the language. That's going to
be far beyond the abilities of a translator to deal with.
> It seems unfair to expect *more* from a tool than one could expect
> from a human programmer.
I don't expect more from the tool. That's why I said that the
translation is going to be essentially impossible.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-19 13:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-18 13:58 C++ to Ada translator? Ivan Paniagua
2002-09-18 19:12 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-09-18 20:14 ` Robert A Duff
2002-09-18 20:28 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-09-19 14:29 ` Wes Groleau
2002-09-19 23:28 ` Ira Baxter
2002-09-20 16:12 ` Wes Groleau
2002-09-21 15:54 ` Ira Baxter
2002-09-18 19:50 ` Ira Baxter
2002-09-18 20:18 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-09-18 20:33 ` Robert A Duff
2002-09-19 13:37 ` Hyman Rosen [this message]
2002-09-19 13:40 ` Ira Baxter
2002-09-19 14:38 ` Frank J. Lhota
2002-09-19 15:15 ` OT: Russian to English translator? Frank J. Lhota
2002-09-19 17:17 ` Wes Groleau
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