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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,30352abc52760363 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dweller@universe.digex.net (David Weller) Subject: Re: Ada to C++ Translators Date: 1998/02/16 Message-ID: <6c9tjc$obg@universe.digex.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 325595901 References: <34E47622.15EB@atc-1s.hac.com> <1998Feb13.213046.1@eisner> Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-02-16T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <1998Feb13.213046.1@eisner>, Larry Kilgallen wrote: >In article <34E47622.15EB@atc-1s.hac.com>, David Kusuda writes: >> I'm pretty sure that this has been discussed before, but can anyone >> direct me towards an Ada to C++ translator? Any information would be >> greatly appreciated. > >The World Wide Web site DejaNews.com can direct you to many things >which have been discussed before in this newsgroup. For the topic >you raise there are _many_ previous discussions going on at length >typically petering out with people arguing about what constitutes >usable translation. > Or something about an infinite number of monkeys working for a finite amount of time and pounding out some pretty good C code :-) Let's save Mr. Kusuda a bag of time: 1) It can be done 2) Over a lot of time 3) With a lot of money 4) Starting from scratch is MUCH cheaper 5) It's a pretty dumb thing to do anyway (It takes less code to do a project in Ada95 than in C++) -- ****** NEW!! DoD Ada Hotline Number: 1-800-PARIAH ****** Tired of "junk" e-mail? Write to your congressman and tell them you support H.R. 1748, "The Netizens Protection Act of 1997". Make those SPAM-roaches run! http://www.cauce.org TAKE BACK THE INTERNET!