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From: tmoran@bix.com (Tom Moran)
Subject: Re: how to make Ada more popular?
Date: 1999/01/21
Date: 1999-01-21T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <36a792f0.4520181@news.pacbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 36A793AB.7A000E82@netwood.net

>1. Write a portable translator from C and C++ to Ada.
>...
>The translation needs to be good enough
>so that the resulting Ada code is maintainable
  My experience is that a human translation from C to Ada always
uncovers significant bugs in the original C.  These would not likely
be noticed by a machine translation.

>3. Write an Ada interpreter or p-code compiler
>so that Ada applets can be safely distributed
>on the world wide web.
  Different in what way from the existing Intermetrics/Aonix/Gnat
ones?




  reply	other threads:[~1999-01-21  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-01-21  0:00 how to make Ada more popular? bill_1
1999-01-21  0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-22  0:00   ` dennison
1999-01-22  0:00     ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
1999-01-24  0:00     ` Tom Moran
1999-01-24  0:00       ` bill_1
1999-01-25  0:00         ` Kees Serier
1999-01-21  0:00 ` Fraser Wilson
1999-01-22  0:00   ` Samuel Tardieu
1999-01-21  0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-01-21  0:00   ` Hans N. Beck
1999-01-21  0:00 ` Al Christians
1999-01-21  0:00   ` bill_1
1999-01-21  0:00 ` E. Robert Tisdale
1999-01-21  0:00   ` Tom Moran [this message]
1999-01-22  0:00   ` Samuel Tardieu
1999-01-23  0:00   ` micro_ada
1999-01-23  0:00     ` Al Christians
1999-01-22  0:00 ` Steve Doiel
1999-01-23  0:00   ` Tom Moran
1999-01-24  0:00   ` Lack of Ada Windows books (was: " Larry Kilgallen
1999-01-22  0:00 ` Kees Serier
1999-01-22  0:00   ` dennison
1999-01-25  0:00   ` news.oxy.com
1999-01-25  0:00     ` bill_1
1999-01-30  0:00       ` Nick Roberts
1999-01-25  0:00     ` Jerry van Dijk
1999-01-26  0:00       ` Richard D Riehle
1999-01-27  0:00         ` kna
1999-01-27  0:00           ` Tom Moran
1999-01-25  0:00   ` David Botton
1999-01-22  0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
1999-01-22  0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-01-24  0:00   ` dewar
1999-01-25  0:00     ` Markus Kuhn
1999-01-24  0:00       ` Al Christians
1999-01-25  0:00       ` dennison
1999-01-29  0:00     ` Aidan Skinner
1999-01-23  0:00 ` Bob Munck
1999-01-31  0:00   ` Nick Roberts
1999-01-27  0:00 ` Making ADA More Popular Michael Garrett
1999-01-27  0:00   ` joel
1999-01-27  0:00   ` Marin David Condic
1999-01-27  0:00   ` Michael Garrett
1999-01-28  0:00   ` dewar
1999-02-03  0:00 ` how to make Ada more popular? Donald Duck
1999-02-03  0:00   ` Andrzej Lewandowski
1999-02-03  0:00     ` news.oxy.com
1999-02-03  0:00   ` Larry Kilgallen
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