Re: occam to ada

[dweller@universe.digex.net (David Weller)]

In article <34eb371b.933779@news.demon.co.uk>,
John McCabe <john@assen.demon.co.uk.nospam> wrote:
>||sAmEk|| <samek@technologist.com> wrote:
>
>>does anybody know cross compiler (?) from occam to ada 95
>>
>>
>Not that I know of, not that it would be a "cross-compiler" anyway.
>What you're looking for is a translator and, based on the limits
>imposed on Occam (2) I would siggest that writing one yourself would
>be pretty simple really.
>
>

As the American saying goes, "Been There, Done That" :-)

I and another chap (Howard Stein) wrote an Occam2->Ada95 translator in
Perl about a year and a half ago.  Took us about 3 weeks.  It wasn't
perfect, but it did most of the job (about 95%).

Alas, that source is held within the hands of Hughes (now Raytheon),
who has no bloody idea what to do with it now that it's orginal
purpose is done (we translated a huge radar simulator from Occam2 to
Ada95..ported that puppy from those dreadful Transputers to
SGI...ironically, SGI's "big" systems now use a similar "crossbar"
technology that was originally found in the Transputers :-)

I could rewrite it from scratch if there's enough intere$t.
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