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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1479b753518e2325 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: tmoran@bix.com (Tom Moran) Subject: Re: how to make Ada more popular? Date: 1999/01/21 Message-ID: <36a792f0.4520181@news.pacbell.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 435408668 References: <787hk5$q6t@drn.newsguy.com> <36A793AB.7A000E82@netwood.net> X-Complaints-To: abuse@pacbell.net X-Trace: typhoon-sf.pbi.net 916952016 206.170.2.222 (Thu, 21 Jan 1999 12:53:36 PDT) Organization: SBC Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 12:53:36 PDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-01-21T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: >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?