Re: Commercial C To Ada 95 compiler

[dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison)]

Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) wrote in message news:<ppIBFZ2aI1Vx@eisner.encompasserve.org>...
> In article <3D002D11.CC706952@adaworks.com>, Richard Riehle <richard@adaworks.com> writes:
> > Henrik Quintel wrote:
> > 
> >> does someone knows an ANSI C to Ada 95 compiler (commercial)?
> >> The compiler has to translate C header and C body files.
> > 
> > This idea, if you will forgive my being blunt, makes absolutely
> > no sense at all.
> 
> It might make sense in a mythical future when product liability laws
> discouraged vendors from selling C compilers :-)

:-)

The only problem with that is that the translation would have to be
just as unsafe for it to be a valid translation of C. Think lots of
integers, floats, unchecked_conversions, and "pragma Suppress
(All_Checks);"s. Absolutely no good would come from such a
translation, unless you happened to need to use a platform that has an
Ada compiler and no C compiler. You could try to refactor it
afterwards, I suppose. But it would probably be easier to do so
straight from the original C.

On the other hand, it might make sense if we added to your universe: 

software developers who believe touching raw C code leaves them
ritually unclean.

Running the C through a tool has got to be cheaper than hiring some
software monk like Grady Booch to come in and perform some kind of
cleansing ceremony on your whole software development environment.
Plus, there's that 7 day waiting period, not to mention that getting
computers to run again after being immersed in mikvah is a bitch.

:-)

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