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From: Scott Ingram <scott@silver.jhuapl.edu>
Subject: Re: Alsys Ada question
Date: 2000/03/08
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Richard D Riehle wrote:

> You are probably better off making the transition to an Ada 95 compiler.  It is
> upward compatible, in most respects, and will ultimately give you a better, more
> maintainable software application.  Whatever you do, don't fall into the trap of
> trying to convert the application to C++.  That is an "out of the frying pan and
> into the fire" solution.
> 
> Richard Riehle

No danger of going the C++ route.  I only learned C because I couldn't
find an
affordable Unix Ada compiler when I switched to Unix for home use ten
years ago :)
And the only maintenance necessary for this embedded system is to
determine the
origin of an unhandled exception.  It may in fact be a hardware fault
not accounted
for in the code, so with luck I may not have to rebuild the sources.
-- 
Scott Ingram
Sonar Processing and Analysis Laboratory
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory