Re: ada -> C translator

[William Clodius <wclodius@lanl.gov>]

Robert Dewar wrote:
> <snip>
> You are still thinking in terms of conventional C generated by humans.
> Sorry -- wrong level of thinking, not applicable here!
> <snip>

Do not assume that Fergus is thinking of C generated by humans. When you
assume that you argue from an invalid position. This assumption leads to
statements that imply that it is always impractical to include
conditional compilation for C generated by a machine. Further, other
valid statements that you make will often be ignored or misunderstood,
due to the buttons such a statement will push. Fergus works all the time
with C generated automatically by a compiler to C that takes into
account the dependencies of a variety of systems, and is well aware that
machine generated C that includes conditional compilation directives is
a practical solution for many cases.  The problem is not whether the
code is machine or human generated, but whether for Ada in particular
the complexity becomes impractical.

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