Re: Translating 83 => 9X

[billwolf%hazel.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu (William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 )]

From rfg@ics.uci.edu (Ronald Guilmette):
>>   I do not know as a fact that this is the case, but I do recall
>>   reading about plans for automatic 83 => 9X translation.  Perhaps
>>   someone having more direct knowledge of the situation could comment
>>   in greater detail.
> 
> If you can find the reference, I'm sure that many here would be interested
> to read that same publication.

   Unfortunately, at the time I considered it an interesting tidbit of
   information, but did not anticipate ever having to cite it.  At any
   rate, we must also realize that translation is only one of the two 
   major avenues of transition; the other is to exploit Ada's ability
   to call code written in other languages.  If the manufacturers of 
   Ada 83 compilers decided to sell an upgrade which would permit the
   use of pragma Interface to Ada 9X, and the 9X compilers also had the
   ability to interface to Ada 83, then the primary purpose of automatic
   translation would be to enable the use of the more powerful Ada 9X 
   by the system's maintainers.


   Bill Wolfe, wtwolfe@hubcap.clemson.edu