From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,7972cb596f5c5a22 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 21:40:39 +0100 From: Gautier User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Porting Ada code to Linux References: <1162304266.131951.152900@e64g2000cwd.googlegroups.com> <1162316294.922457.113520@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <1162316294.922457.113520@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.77.187.107 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.77.187.107 Message-ID: <4547b4eb$1_5@news.bluewin.ch> X-Trace: news.bluewin.ch 1162327275 83.77.187.107 (31 Oct 2006 21:41:15 +0100) Organization: Bluewin AG Complaints-To: abuse@bluewin.ch X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!wns13feed!worldnet.att.net!164.128.36.58!news.ip-plus.net!newsfeed.ip-plus.net!news.bluewin.ch!not-for-mail Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:7305 Date: 2006-10-31T21:40:39+01:00 List-Id: 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 ______________________________________________________________ Ada programming -- http://www.mysunrise.ch/users/gdm/gsoft.htm NB: For a direct answer, e-mail address on the Web site!