Re: Ada to C++ translator?

[Robert Brantley <robert.brantley@lmco.com>]

Ted Dennison wrote:

> Most likely you'll just end up
> with the biggest mess the world has seen since my 3-year-old got into my
> old wargame boxes.

I got mine buried in the closet so they can't get at them.

>
> I'd say we could probably provide more help if you told us what you are
> trying to accomplish by doing that, but that would probably just be
> opening yourself up to more abuse (when most likely its your managment
> that deserves the abuse).
>

We are re-using code from a legacy system, and we have spent a lot of
effort on binding this legacy Ada code to the RTOS we are using.  As the
work
has progressed it has become increasing apparent how much work is involved
in mating the Ada code to the RTOS and the RTOS's development tools.  A
great
deal of complexity could be cut out if we move the application code to the
RTOS
native language or it's derivative C++.

There are also other pressures outside software development concerns pushing
us
toward C++.  The quality and price of available tool, hiring, etc.

The ideal was to see if we could automate the process of conversion as much
as
possible, we realize a 100%, or even 90%, mapping from one language to the
other
is impossible.

Robert Brantley
robert.brantley@lmco.com