Re: Ada grammar

[bradders <bradNObrSPAM@england.com.invalid>]

Many thanks to everyone who replied and offered their advice.
I've remained quiet up 'til now as a lot of information has been
flying about and I'm trying to take it all in. The first point
to make is that I have already written commercial parsers for C,
C++, Java, Delphi and Powerbuilder so I know what I'm doing and
Ada doesn't scare me ;-)(yet)

Ada will definately bring it's own challenges but at least
there's no preprocessor (C++'s biggest problem).

I think someone said it was pointless to write something that
reverse engineered pure Ada into UML (or words to that or
similar effect). Well, it's not pointless for people that want
to use our UML tool to generate and reverse engineer Ada. It
doesn't matter that there's some tool already available that
will analyse Ada code. That's of no use to our customers at all.

The question then, it seems, is do I deal with pure Ada or use
ASIS? The answer to that will come from our sales and marketing
group. I shall send them a transcript of the last 34 messages
and  let them fight it out!

Many thanks for all your help
Brad

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