Re: C++ to Ada translator?

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

"Wes Groleau" <wesgroleau@despammed.com> wrote in message
news:3D8B48F2.3CAD7FA5@despammed.com...
>
> Ira Baxter wrote:
> > I'll agree that the translated code is not a pretty or nice
> > as that written by an experienced engineer.   I've seen
> > much worse code from some so-called "professional" engineers.
>
> My point (and I think you suported it)
> was that, although the output of either
> kind of translator is not acceptable for
> delivery either one can provide a valuable,
> time-saving head start.

For many translators I've seen, I'll agree with this.
I think, however, this has to do with the quality of translator.
And I will immodestly say that things are
changing for the better; our JOVIAL-to-C
customer seems to be happy enough.
He has no specific plans to do a major
cleanup of the translated code.

There are often major plans to modify
translated programs after the fact.
This is driven by the need to add functionality.
For the JOVIAL case, the original
code ran on 16 bit machines, and
they had hardly enough room to turn
around.  Running in a 32 bit C
environment, now they plan to add
lots of new functionality.

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Ira D. Baxter, Ph.D., CTO   512-250-1018
Semantic Designs, Inc.      www.semdesigns.com