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From: frank@bigdog.engr.arizona.edu (Frank Manning)
Subject: Re: WANTED: Ada-to-C Translator
Date: 1996/10/10
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newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c
Date: 1996-10-10T00:00:00+00:00
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Keith asked:

>> Is there an Ada-To-C translator and where can I find it?

Robert answers:

> This question has been answered many times on CLA, if you read CLA it is
> hard to believe you have missed these answers, but here goes again once
> more with the answer.
>
> NO!

To quote from the guy in Cool Hand Luke, what we have here is a failure
to communicate.

Erik Magnuson writes:

> In a former life, I used to use such a beast daily [...]

B|rje Norden or Robert Dewar said (diffcult to tell in
<dewar.844515554@schonberg>:

> 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.

I assume that "No" really means "Yes, they've existed in the past, but
no, they're not available today."

-- Frank Manning