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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 11232c,c4ac8be162bc5e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid11232c,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,41100a78496a4c71 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-03 22:14:43 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsmi-us.news.garr.it!NewsITBone-GARR!area.cu.mi.it!news.mailgate.org!mygate.mailgate.org!198.207.153.205!not-for-mail From: "Kent Paul Dolan" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,misc.misc Subject: Re: Nethack! (was): AdaGames Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 06:14:41 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Mailgate.ORG Server - http://www.Mailgate.ORG Message-ID: <598d46834b4ac2b4bffabdacf5ced656.48257@mygate.mailgate.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.207.153.205 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.mailgate.org 1017900044 25527 198.207.153.205 (Thu Apr 4 08:14:42 2002) X-Complaints-To: abuse@mailgate.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 06:14:41 +0000 (UTC) Injector-Info: news.mailgate.org; posting-host=198.207.153.205; posting-account=48257; posting-date=1017900044 User-Agent: Mailgate Web Server X-URL: http://mygate.mailgate.org/mynews/comp/comp.lang.ada/598d46834b4ac2b4bffabdacf5ced656.48257%40mygate.mailgate.org Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:22081 misc.misc:6077 Date: 2002-04-04T06:14:41+00:00 List-Id: "tmoran" wrote in message news:rPQq8.1214$UW.702270680@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com... > > A C program translated directly into Ada doesn't really buy you much. > Attempting the translation will often show up errors in the C program. >From reading though the code, what, a dozen years or more ago, inventing Ada-fied ways to do some of the incredibly slick stuff C programmer students invented for a language with fairly primitive programming tools, and reimplementing them flawlessly in a pointerless language, is going to force you to get thoroughly into bed with Ada, too. xanthian. -- Posted via Mailgate.ORG Server - http://www.Mailgate.ORG