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From: RSWhite@nospam.somewhere.ia.us (Robert S. White)
Subject: Re: Jovial to Ada translator
Date: 1999/03/27
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In article <36FC1815.541F65E3@sd.aonix.com>, leda@sd.aonix.com says...
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>Does anyone know where I could find a Jovial to Ada translator? Thanks!

  Yes...it would be interesting to see if anybody was able to 
create Ada "rep specs" out of Jovial compool sources. And then there is
that array order thingy.  Have you tried a Deja News search?  Seem
to recall a few years ago some posts claiming some success in 
doing such a machine translation.  Personally never have been 
convinced that an automatic conversion would be truly worthwhile.
Wouldn't it not, in fact, be better to bite the bullet and have an
intelligent S/W engineer read the original code and requirements, and
then re-engineer a cleaner, more maintainable, solution in Ada!

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