Re: Cheap/Free Ada (was: Ada9x Transition)

[jcallen@Encore.COM (Jerry Callen)]

In article <jls.670100311@rutabaga> jls@rutabaga.Rational.COM (Jim Showalter) writes:
> [regarding my fantasy of a GNU Ada front end]
>Actually, that's a pretty clever idea. I'm not too jazzed about the
>debugging issues (ever try to debug C++ that has been "mangled" [Stroustrup's
>term, not mine!] into C? Not pretty), but other than that it could
>work pretty well.

Arg, no, you misunderstood. I do NOT want an Ada-to-C translator, I want
a real live "front end" (first pass). The GNU C++ compiler is NOT a
preprocessor.

Of course, the chance of my fantasy actually coming true is roughly 
equal to the chance that any decent Ada 9X implementations will show up
before the year 2000. (ducks...)

-- Jerry Callen
   jcallen@encore.com