From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 19 Feb 93 18:48:49 GMT From: cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!cs.utexas.edu!csc.ti.com !tilde.csc.ti.com!mksol!mccall@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (fred j mccall 575-3539) Subject: Re: Looking for Ada to C++ translator Message-ID: <1993Feb19.184849.20853@mksol.dseg.ti.com> List-Id: In <1993Feb17.231349.18786@source.asset.com> tannend@source.asset.com (David M. Tannen) writes: >DO NOT DO IT. I am at a site that translated PLM to Ada via a software >package thinking it would be cheaper. What a horrible mess that 100k >system turned out to be. Every parameter was passed as a >'System_Address. Strings were constructed using Char'Pos. Arg. Totally >unmaintainable code, even by the developers. >Save yourself a lot of trouble, rewrite the system in the new language. I'll second that. Rewriting lets you use the strengths of the new language, plus you get something you can maintain out the other side. This applies to *any* conversion. The only time to do it is if you don't have any other options. Otherwise, it's cheaper and easier to just rewrite. -- "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fred.McCall@dseg.ti.com - I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.