From: Gautier <gautier@fakeaddress.nil>
Subject: Re: Porting Ada code to Linux
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 21:40:39 +0100
Date: 2006-10-31T21:40:39+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4547b4eb$1_5@news.bluewin.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1162316294.922457.113520@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>
Howard:
> We are porting from a Windows-95 "legacy" system to a new Linux one.
> The code we are re-writing is Visual Basic, and we are translating it
> into C++. But, the VB code had a dependancy on a considerable amount
> of Ada 95 code that the VB code interfaced with via DLLs.
Since VB is syntactically strongly inspired by Ada, it will make more sense to
translate your VB code into Ada. In addition, linking the translated code to
the existing Ada code will be *way* easier (just through "with", "use") than
trying to do that from a C++ code...
HTH, Gautier
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-31 14:17 Porting Ada code to Linux Bill
2006-10-31 14:30 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-10-31 17:38 ` Howard
2006-10-31 18:16 ` Martin Krischik
2006-10-31 20:29 ` Gautier
2006-10-31 20:21 ` Dr. Adrian Wrigley
2006-10-31 20:26 ` Michael Bode
2006-10-31 20:40 ` Gautier [this message]
2006-10-31 23:10 ` Dr. Adrian Wrigley
2006-10-31 20:41 ` Michael Bode
2006-11-01 3:28 ` Steve
2006-11-01 9:03 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-11-01 10:14 ` Alex Buell
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