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From: mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman)
Subject: Re: Pascal to Ada translator/ aflex,ayacc GNAT ports
Date: 1996/12/01
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Date: 1996-12-01T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <01bbdf5d$da19d820$33208b82@wd>,
wiljan <W.Derks@nl.cis.philips.com> wrote:

>My intermediate goal was the translator, but my final goal was to
>have my EPASCAL code running in Ada on Windows NT.
>
>Wiljan

I agree with Wiljan here - a partial translation - to be completed
and cleaned up by hand - is better than none at all. I've done a lot
of ad-hoc partial translations of Pascal and Modula-2 code, mostly using
very simple stuff written in SNOBOL. This code has all been significantly
improved by hand, but the job was _much_ easier than hand-coding from
scratch.

As in so many other things, I think moderation is a virtue here.

Mike Feldman