Re: Porting Ada to C (Stealth development)

[dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison)]

pontius@btv.MBI.com.invalid (Dale Pontius) wrote in message news:<a26o04$jfc$1@news.btv.ibm.com>...
> guess makes some sense. So I'd like to do my development in Ada, and
> have the occasional conversion to C to play well with others. This
> probably needs to be free, as well, since it wouldn't cost money if
> if I just started the project in C. (Can't justify) I did a quick scan
> at www.adahome.org without luck. I'll also need to link in C libs, but
> that should be straightforward and in the documentation.

Converters are notoriously horrible. Intermetrics claims to have one
that makes readable code, but it isn't free (and I have too many
relatives from Missouri to believe that without seeing it).

I have heard of people successfully using Ada as their PDL, and then
using C for the actual code. Since Ada is more human-readable anyway,
many people might not even realise your PDL is Ada. :-)

Another possible approach, if its a one-man project and they are as
open to alternate languages as you seem to imply they are, would be to
just write it in Ada without raising it as an issue in the first
place. You can't exactly get in trouble for not following orders if
you were never given any.