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=2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_MSGID, PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT,REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,6ad79e340b33ca2c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Brian G. Holmes" Subject: Re: C++ To Ada95 Translator Date: 1997/07/23 Message-ID: <33D619C8.7208@gsc.gte.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 258318225 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: fp03-206.rtp.gtegsc.com Sender: news@wlbr.iipo.gtegsc.com (Steven M. Schultz) References: <33D4EEB6.6D2B@gsc.gte.com> X-Trace: 869665622/7283 Organization: GTE Government Systems Reply-To: brian.holmes@gsc.gte.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-07-23T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Robert Dewar wrote: > > Ken asks > > <<... I'm interested if > yours is for shareware/freeware purposes or commercial. > >> > > And another interesting (and completely orthogonal) question is > whether you plan to make it free software or not. The cpp2anf translator was created for use by the company I work for on a conversion effort that is also funded entirely by them. When they think of the tool, they do not think of the hundreds of thousands of dollars that it _may_ save them, but rather they think of the tens of thousands of dollars that they have already spent on it. I am asked, �can we recuperate any of the money that we have spent on that thing?� As such, they are (currently) more interested in the commercial aspects of the tool than the less obvious advantages of releasing it under the GPL. I would like to share/present my experiences with development of a conversion plan, and implementation of a translation tool in a conference environment, and I would also like to continue my work on the translation tool. The translator is already a useful tool, but most of its limitations could be at least partially overcome. We would like to offer our services to anyone else who is involved in a C++ to Ada95 conversion effort. We feel that we can be of help because we have a conversion plan, and a tool that supports it. Brian G. Holmes brian.holmes@gsc.gte.com