Re: Fortran 77 to Ada

[Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>]

In article <18cf8f9c.09c1c234@usw-ex0108-062.remarq.com>,
  Chris <caux@apside.fr> wrote:
> Do you know any tools able to translate automatically
> (almost) a Fortran software program (F77 type)into an Ada83
> software program ?


It would be interesting to know why anyone would want to do
such a pointless thing. I know this sort of thing used to
happen when the mandate was unreasonably interpreted but I
would have thought we would have seen the end of this kind
of pointless excercise.

Of course there can be exceptions (e.g. a target where Ada is
available and Fortran is not, not easy to think of such), but
in normal cases there are two possibilities:

a) the code is high quality and works fine, in this case why
on earth translate it.

b) the code is in bad shape and need reengineering. In this
case I think you do much better to start from scratch rather
than working from a translated version that is even messier
than the original [an inevitable consequence of automatic
translation]



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