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From: "Tarjei T. Jensen" <tarjei.jensen@kvaerner.com>
Subject: Re: Where is the elusive jump command?
Date: 2000/04/13
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Robert A Duff
>> The modula-2 compiler moca comes with a "compiler" which rewrites the
>> source to readable C (the author claims). The kit used for this is
>> cocktail.
>> It should be  possible to do the same for an fortran to Ada translator.
>
>But it's easier to translate a higher-level language into a lower-level
>language, than the other way around.


The point with moca and the reason for the pride of the author was that the
program was re-written in another language without loosing readability. It was
a matter of translation instead of compilation if I should put a name on the
process.

This  means that there is prior art with regards to translating from a language
to another and keeping the result readable. I suspect that it is easier to do
this for fortran to ada than from c/c++ to ada.

Anybody interested should inspect the moca compiler and the cocktail kit to
decide for themselves whether the author is right about his claim.


Greetings,