From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1479b753518e2325 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Samuel Tardieu Subject: Re: how to make Ada more popular? Date: 1999/01/22 Message-ID: <87n23bcy9k.fsf@zaphod.enst.fr>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 435600130 References: <787hk5$q6t@drn.newsguy.com> <36A793AB.7A000E82@netwood.net> Mail-Copies-To: sam@ada.eu.org X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.enst.fr X-Trace: enst.enst.fr 917006471 640 137.194.160.95 (22 Jan 1999 12:01:11 GMT) Organization: TELECOM Paris Mime-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070066 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.66) XEmacs/21.2(beta3) (Aglaia) NNTP-Posting-Date: 22 Jan 1999 12:01:11 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-01-22T12:01:11+00:00 List-Id: >>>>> "Bob" == E Robert Tisdale writes: Bob> 1. Write a portable translator from C and C++ to Ada. Bob> Of course, the translator should be written in Ada and the Bob> translator source code should be published. Why write it in Ada? Once you have it in C, just make it go through itself to generate the Ada source and publish this one :-) Sam -- Samuel Tardieu -- sam@ada.eu.org