Re: Another good URL for all you C++ haters

[chris.m.moore@amsjv.com (Chris M. Moore)]

On 6 Sep 2001 12:12:24 -0700, dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) wrote:

>chris.m.moore@amsjv.com (Chris M. Moore) wrote in message news:<3b97643b.14694078@news.geccs.gecm.com>...
>> >>Chris M. Moore wrote:
>
>> Interesting. So the tool is owned by ACT.
>
>No, SGI owns this tool, we have access to the software
>but it would require major rewriting (to disentangle it
>from its proprietary C++ front end) before it could be
>distributed, and at the current time we have no plans
>to do this.

Thanks for this correction Robert; I hoped you were listening.  :-)

I think it would be a huge advantage for Ada to have a tool which
could even semi-automate the generation of bindings to C++ code.
However, I'm not about to volunteer to write one as all my
free-software effort is currently expended on the glacial kUML
project.  (Hmm, reverse engineer C++ code into UML diagrams then
generate Ada bindings from UML?  Once the repository is done and the
XMI input/output is working.  *sigh*)

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Chris M. Moore
Software engineer
speaking for myself