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From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
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Subject: Re: Advice on selling Ada to a C shop
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Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 04:42:18 -0400
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Warren <ve3wwg@gmail.com> writes:

> ... in a given company, where many
> similar projects are done, you may have large bodies
> of existing library code. It's a tough sell to say
> "rewrite _everything_ in Ada". 

Yes, that's a non-starter.

Be sure to mention GNAT's -fdump-ada-spec, which generates Ada package
specs from C code. That makes it _much_ easier to import C correctly.

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-- Stephe