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=1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_DATE, MSGID_SHORT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!crdgw1!jupiter!kassover From: kassover@jupiter.crd.ge.com (David Kassover) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Use of "C/Ada" -- the C dialect of Ada Message-ID: <5359@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> Date: 19 Feb 90 16:59:54 GMT References: <18340.635014153@chance> <196@puma.ge.com> Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Organization: Aule-Tek, Inc. List-Id: Hmm. Die-hard C programmers will have to lose the tendency to write one-line wonders and functions with side effects. Other than that there *should be* no problem, assuming you are dealing with people who have a professional attitude toward their craft, as opposed to egotists. There is a third option that bears looking into: Write the thing in C and then run the whole mess through an ada translator. When the translated stuff is verified, throw away the C. There have been several requests in this newsgroup for such translators, so I might as well post my stock E-mail answer: Software Rework, Inc. specializes in this area (that of (re-)vitalizing software systems by translating them into new languages and/or environments, particularly when the target is Ada. Contact info: J. David McGonagle Software Rework, Inc. 1223 Peoples Avenue Troy, NY 12180 Sorry, I have no telephone number available. And please mention me when you contact them. [If such a direct commercial message is too crass, I apologize. Let me know and I will restrict such to E-mail. But be forewarned, for reasons I do not care to understand, many styles of return address are unreachable from here. Thanks again]