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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,94a2b19e68586a6 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,9adfbb907494972e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,9adfbb907494972e X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: frank@bigdog.engr.arizona.edu (Frank Manning) Subject: Re: Ada to C/C++ translator needed Date: 1996/10/05 Message-ID: <536eid$gv2@news.ccit.arizona.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 187794895 references: <32499FA0.4B5E@magic.fr> <52cdn6$iis@dfw.dfw.net> <3251C855.41C6@etek.chalmers.se> organization: College of Engineering and Mines, University of Arizona newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1996-10-05T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article dewar@schonberg.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes: > ...such a "C" program is no more interesting from a maintainability > point of view than intermediate assembly language. It is a possible path > to an interesting level of portability for the Ada compiler, which is why > it has been used for at least one Ada compiler in the past. Eh? Where can I get one of these compilers? Awhile back there was a big discussion about the merits of writing an 8051 Ada compiler. I'm a bit surprised nobody mentioned this possibility, since 8051 C compilers already exist. -- Frank Manning -- Chair, AIAA-Tucson Section