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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,9d929352a358ccab X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!proxad.net!134.158.69.22.MISMATCH!in2p3.fr!kanaga.switch.ch!switch.ch!newsfeed.inode.at!news.hispeed.ch!linux2.krischik.com!news From: Martin Krischik Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada to C++ translator Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 18:15:49 +0100 Organization: Cablecom Newsserver Message-ID: <1320651.Sjn9jDnb0d@linux1.krischik.com> References: <1138132539.577082.206380@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <87zmlkoz4k.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: 84-74-134-212.dclient.hispeed.ch Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: news.hispeed.ch 1138298433 2717 84.74.134.212 (26 Jan 2006 18:00:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@hispeed.ch NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 18:00:33 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: KNode/0.10 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2653 Date: 2006-01-26T18:15:49+01:00 List-Id: Florian Weimer wrote: > * Bobby D. Bryant: > >>> I am looking for an Ada to C++ translator. The converter will only be >>> used as an intermediate step and not used on sections of code we will >>> be re-architecting to make use of C++ functionality. >> >> What is "C++ functionality"? > Implicit instantiation of templates, for example. Low-overhead > destructors, parameterized exceptions and multiple inheritance come to > my mind, too. And there is wild pointer arithmetic, of course. After 10 years of C++ I am unsure if those fine features really make programming any easier. Martin -- mailto://krischik@users.sourceforge.net Ada programming at: http://ada.krischik.com