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=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, SUBJ_ALL_CAPS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,9e20292f693f1408 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "W. Wesley Groleau x4923" Subject: Re: ADA CORE TECHNOLOGIES ANNOUNCES GNAT-TO-JAVA SYSTEM Date: 1997/09/19 Message-ID: <34228A59.7D45@pseserv3.fw.hac.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 273823958 Sender: usenet@most.fw.hac.com (News Administration) X-Nntp-Posting-Host: sparc02 References: <34196E8E.1790@gsfc.nasa.gov> <341D47EE.3804@gsfc.nasa.gov> <342002F1.6913@gsfc.nasa.gov> Organization: Hughes Defense Communications Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-09-19T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: > It never makes sense to me to translate code in language A to language B just > for the sake of having the code in language B. Define "just for the sake". If you (one person or company) is going to have to _maintain_ code (i.e., actual changes anticipated) for some length of time, then a translation to a more maintainable format _may_ be justified. > .... People often think that it would make sense to somehow > have JVM as a target for GCC, but if they think that then they > have serious misconceptions about the GCC backend, or JVM, or both! As one of those people, I would like to say that, from experience with the UCSD p-System (including reverse assembling the Z-80 interpreter when support was not available), and having read the JVM specs, I do not have the misconceptions you speak of. I just had the motivation that IF it could be done, one would automatically get byte-code from several languages instead of just from Ada. Even a new code generator that used the gcc tree instead of the GNAT tree would do this. I recognize that this is a bigger job than the job ACT is undertaking. And it's certainly out of reach of my available time and talent. But it would still be a Good Thing. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Wes Groleau, Hughes Defense Communications, Fort Wayne, IN USA Senior Software Engineer - AFATDS Tool-smith Wanna-be wwgrol AT pseserv3.fw.hac.com Don't send advertisements to this domain unless asked! All disk space on fw.hac.com hosts belongs to either Hughes Defense Communications or the United States government. Using email to store YOUR advertising on them is trespassing! ----------------------------------------------------------------------