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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,32cfbb718858528b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-11 09:39:04 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!HSNX.atgi.net!cyclone-sf.pbi.net!151.164.30.35!cyclone.swbell.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3D062797.15D77E1B@despammed.com> From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: wesgroleau@despammed.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,es-MX,es,pt,fr-CA,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Commercial C To Ada 95 compiler References: <3D002D11.CC706952@adaworks.com> <4519e058.0206071148.9b87acf@posting.google.com> <3D0116F3.7254E263@despammed.com> <3D018106.6080004@worldnet.att.net> <5ee5b646.0206080411.7da58d12@posting.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 11:38:47 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.168.144.162 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com 1023813543 151.168.144.162 (Tue, 11 Jun 2002 11:39:03 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 11:39:03 CDT Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:25745 Date: 2002-06-11T11:38:47-05:00 List-Id: > If I were confronted with some legacy C code someone wanted to leverage into > an Ada project through conversion, that would be my gut reaction - probably > it is cheaper to build it over again with *new* requirements that reflect > everything we want than it would be to translate the old stuff and keep Indeed. Updating code without changing languages sometimes takes a lot of change. The fact that it was written in C makes a high probability that it will REALLY take a lot of work--unless you personally know that a top-quality process was followed to create it. -- Wes Groleau http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau