Re Ada to C translator

[Colin James 0621 <cjames@dsc.blm.gov>]

Re request for Ada to C translator from digex.com (PAT):

Most computer science textbooks classify Ada as a high order language and
C as an intermediate level language (along only with FORTH).

Hence the C to Ada translator does not make sense because one would lose the
features and advantages of Ada in the process of automatically translating
a lower level to a higher level language.  This is why in practice the
translator usually go from high order to high order (such as COBOL to ADA  or
FORTRAN to Ada) or from high order to lower level (such as FORTRAN to C or,
God forbid, Ada to C).

The previous suggestion in the thread to reengineer into Ada directly is
still probably the best idea with at least two side-effects:  more readable
and portable code than in C and fewer lines of (readable) code than in C.