Re: ada to C++ translation

["Ira D. Baxter" <idbaxter@semdesigns.com>]

"Jeffrey Carter" <jeffrey.carter@boeing.com> wrote in message
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> "Ira D. Baxter" wrote:
> >
> > "John Hayward" <haywardjohn@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:d4a6cd7e.0202281909.25488168@posting.google.com...
> > > Does anybody have information on Ada to C++ language translators?
> > >
> > We build custom translators based on our generalized compiler
technology,
> > DMS.
> > See
http://www.semdesigns.com/Products/DMS/Porting/Porting_files/frame.htm.
>
> Very interesting. That link shows me a couple of blank frames.

It does?  I just checked it with IE5.  No blank frames.
What browser are you using?

> How does your generalized compiler technology translate Ada tasks and
protected
> objects into C++?

We presently don't have an Ada to C++ translator.
Our tools are used to construct custom translators, and the claim
is that we can build such a translator.
For example, we have build JOVIAL to C translators.
And we have a nice start; our tools already can process Ada95
and C++, so the real task is to define the map between them.

How such things are defined are usually defined by customer dictate.
The value in our approach is that we *can* do that,
relatively economically.

The question for any Ada-to-C++ translation is,
what is the economic payoff in doing that?
If it exceeds significantly the cost of the custom translator,
then such a translator make sense.

The original poster asked what people know about such tools.