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Subject: Re: Ada to C Translator
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 08:08:51 GMT
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Dr Adrian Wrigley:

> Yes!  Here in Cambridge (England), civil engineers pulled down a very
> well constructed bridge (The Victoria Avenue Bridge), made of stone
> and iron, to replace it with something visually similar of steel.
> The cost (IIRC) was several million pounds, and a lot of
> inconvenience.

> The reason was that the original bridge could not be proved to be
> strong enough for the modern traffic load, because inspection of key
> structures was not possible, and the plans were not available.

Translating Ada to C would mean that you replace expensively the bridge
of steel with a bridge where inspection of key structures is not
possible...

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