Re: Porting Ada to C (Stealth development)

[Larry Hazel <lhhazel@otelco.net>]

Ray Blaak wrote:
> 
> Larry Hazel <lhhazel@otelco.net> writes:
> > The few times I have been required to write in C, I wrote Ada anyway.  Then
> > commented out the ada and hand translated to C.  The only comments were the
> > Ada code and comments that were originally in the Ada code.
> 
> I guess I am fundamentally a lazy programmer.
> 
> Why implement it twice? This increases the chance for errors and is more work.
> 
> When (not if!) you fix a bug, do you fix only the C code, or the Ada as well?
> How do you test the Ada fixes?
> 
Well, you should document your code with comments anyway, and you should change
the comments when you change the code for whatever reason.  Actually the Ada
code I wrote probably wasn't compilable anyway (more like pseudo code), but much
more readable than the C code could ever be.  It's the only way I could ever
write anything in C.  Never have been able to read C and figure out what it's
supposed to be doing.

Larry