Re: C++ to Ada translator?

["Frank J. Lhota" <NOSPAM.lhota.adarose@verizon.net>]

As one who has both developed and used automatic translation tools, let me
state from my experience that the output from automatic translation is
always pretty awful. Yes, the translates often compiles and links with few
hitches. Quite often, you can get the translated program to perform like the
original program. But the translated source code is an unmaintainable mess
that never takes advantage of the best features of the destination language,
and must jump through hoops in order to maintain the best features of its
source language.

All of the previous problems get worse as the level of the target language
gets higher. At the C++ / Ada 95 level, I would expect the translated code
to be atrocious.

The only reason for doing automatic translation is get a new version of the
program in a hurry. For any program that is to be maintained, the right
approach is to do a re-design of the program for the target language.