Re: Ada and the SEI and CACM Viewpoint

[billwolf%hazel.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu (William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 )]

From Judy.Bamberger@SEI.CMU.EDU:
>>>>   I hope that in addition to any discussion that might take place
>>>>   here in comp.lang.ada, someone from the SEI will write to CACM to 
>>>>   straighten out these two regarding the feasibility (yes) and the
>>>>   general advisability (no) of automatic Fortran-to-Ada translation, 
>>>>   as well as the alternative strategy of using pragma Interface, and 
> 
> As an employee of the SEI, I would respectfully like to remind the readers of
> this newsgroup that "SEI" translates into "Software Engineering Institute" - 
> *NOT* "Ada Engineering Institute."  While we do some Ada work here, we 
> primarily do software engineering, education, and technology transition, 

   An example of which can be found in SEI-87-TR-9, "Ada Adoption Handbook:
   A Program Manager's Guide", by John Foreman and John Goodenough, which
   on page 52 (Section 7.4, Translating Languages) gives a good analysis of
   automatic translation as a general strategy for Ada-language transition.

   The authors of this SEI Technical Report would be in a good position
   to write CACM regarding the points raised above (>>>> section...),
   since they clearly have already considered the question in considerably
   greater detail than have either of the two CACM "viewpoint" authors.


   Bill Wolfe, wtwolfe@hubcap.clemson.edu