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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,9ab76c2183ecc054 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2000-12-29 13:32:31 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!216.227.56.88.MISMATCH!telocity-west!TELOCITY!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.skycache.com!Cidera!news-out.usenetserver.com!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!news.mindspring.net!not-for-mail From: Marin David Condic Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada to C Translator Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 16:31:20 -0500 Organization: Quadrus Corporation Message-ID: <3A4D02A7.CAD98475@acm.org> References: <92fk1v0cou@drn.newsguy.com> <92fqlt$h8d$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3A4CF58B.A8FF223C@collins.rockwell.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: d1.56.bb.ac Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Server-Date: 29 Dec 2000 21:30:49 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:3460 Date: 2000-12-29T21:30:49+00:00 List-Id: If you're translating the Ada to C++ so that it can now be maintained by garden variety C++ programmers, then I'd suggest you'd absolutely want to avoid a machine translation. The time the programmers will spend trying to figure out the translated code will be way more than the time it would take them to learn Ada. You'd be better off declaring the system "Finished" and start working on the "Version II" of it in whatever language makes the most sense. A human translation would likely take about as long as a redesign and a redesign allows you to fix anything you didn't like about the original system. The economics of any other choice aren't likely to be good. Of course, if you'd like to outsource the job, I'm sure we could talk about it... MDC Dave Ptacek wrote: > Not that Ada is the limiting factor in all of this, but most new college > grads will have a C/C++ background and realize that Windows programming in > C/C++ looks pretty good on a resume. Throw in the integrated programming > environment (Visual Studio) and several educational houses providing > immediate Windows training programs (Learning Tree), the idea of porting the > source code from Ada to C/C++ becomes an attractive option. Is it > technically the best design choice? For this particular application > mentioned above, probably due to the OS choice and development toolsets > available, but I certainly wouldn't make a general statement that it's the > best choice for every situation. -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic - Quadrus Corporation - http://www.quadruscorp.com/ Send Replies To: m c o n d i c @ q u a d r u s c o r p . c o m Visit my web site at: http://www.mcondic.com/ "Giving money and power to Government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." -- P. J. O'Rourke ======================================================================