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From: Charles Hixson <charleshixsn@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: Ada2C++
Date: 2000/01/18
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"E. Robert Tisdale" wrote:

> Frode Tenneboe wrote:
>
> > BRETTSYS1 (brettsys1@aol.com) wrote:
> > : Does anyone know if there is a utility
> > : that will take Ada95 source and convert it into C++ source?
> >
> > To be honest: The other way around is much more appealing.
>
> No.  I don't think you'd like that.

The only reason that I might not like it is that most translators
produce very ugly code.
OTOH, I believe that I might be quite difficult to do this properly
for more than a small subset of the C++ language.  Anything that
involves recasting pointers, e.g., should refuse to translate.