Ada and Unix (was several other things in the last couple of weeks)

[kassover@minerva.crd.ge.com (David Kassover)]

I am about to embark on porting a moderately large system,
including several dozen kilolines of Ada, from VAX/VMS to Unix
(one or both of two flavors), using one, or both, of two Ada
environments.

The Unix flavors involved are SUN and APOLLO.
The Ada flavors are Alsys, and a player to be named later.

The previous gloom and doom has got me seriously scared, now.
(part of my job is coming up with time and cost estimates for the
porting project)

Is Ada really as bad as all that in the unix world?  Worse?

What are some realistic expectations?

If I have to start rearranging non-system dependent code (that
compiles and executes correctly), the whole project could be in
jeopardy.

Not to mention my personal and professional reputations, and that
of my employer and my client.

In the interests of keeping public bandwidth down, I will
summarize any e-mail I get.

Thank You.

PS.  I don't suppose there's a good symbolic, source level debugger for either
of these systems, that can deal rationally with multi-language code?

--
David Kassover             "Proper technique helps protect you against
kassover@ra.crd.ge.com	    sharp weapons and dull judges."
kassover@crd.ge.com			F. Collins