From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,e7f5eed426d6145 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-09-19 06:35:11 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.mathworks.com!cyclone.swbell.net!newsfeed1.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!uunet!dfw.uu.net!ash.uu.net!spool0902.news.uu.net!not-for-mail Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 09:37:06 -0400 From: Hyman Rosen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: C++ to Ada translator? References: <3d88d8bf$1@giga.realtime.net> <1032380280.239075@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: KBC Financial Products Message-ID: <1032442508.973403@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> Cache-Post-Path: master.nyc.kbcfp.com!unknown@mosquito.nyc.kbcfp.com X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.253.250.10 X-Trace: 1032442509 11277 204.253.250.10 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:29169 Date: 2002-09-19T09:37:06-04:00 List-Id: 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.