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=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,fe2aecddaa6badba,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-11-16 21:37:30 PST Path: nntp.gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!news.cac.psu.edu!news.pop.psu.edu!hudson.lm.com!godot.cc.duq.edu!news.duke.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!paladin.american.edu!auvm!PSAVAX.PWFL.COM!CONDIC Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Message-ID: <9411162039.AA16230@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu> Date: Wed, 16 Nov 1994 15:35:40 EST Sender: Ada programming language From: CONDIC@PSAVAX.PWFL.COM Subject: Let's cover this one more time... Comments: To: INFO-ADA@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu Date: 1994-11-16T15:35:40-05:00 List-Id: From: Marin David Condic, 407.796.8997, M/S 731-93 Subject: Let's cover this one more time... Original_To: PROFS%"SMTP@PWAGPDB" Original_cc: CONDIC Fellow Ada Devotees: I know this question comes up on a regular basis and generally gets the contempt it deserves. However, I feel morally obliged to ask it, because my boss was pretty insistent and in our present climate of "rightsizing" and "outsourcing" I thought it best to be viewed as cooperative. "Does anybody know of any automatic tools for translating Crappy Fortran code into even Crappier Ada code?" We have a jet engine simulation that is very large and very old and someone up the heap is looking for an economical way of moving it from Fortran to Ada to be more compatible with our engine control software. To make it more interesting, how about thinking up instead, good reasons why programmer performed module by module Adatran translation is better than anything done by machine translation. And then, go think up even better reasons why an ancient engine simulation would be best reengineered into *real* Ada. Then go one step further and give reasons why an engine simulation ought to be engineered from the ground up with OOProgramming techniques using Ada 9x. You get extra points for lucid letters, putting a PhD after your name or citing real or imaginary government studies. Bonus points will be given for Creative Credibility or anything else that helps me persuade the Senior Bozos that the real right thing to do is rewrite the simulation in 9x. Reply here to the INFO-Ada listserver or send it directly to me at: CONDICMA@PWFL.COM Thanks for your moral support... Pax, Marin Marin David Condic, Senior Computer Engineer ATT: 407.796.8997 M/S 731-93 Technet: 796.8997 Pratt & Whitney, GESP Internet: CONDICMA@PWFL.COM P.O. Box 109600 Internet: MDCONDIC@AOL.COM West Palm Beach, FL 33410-9600 =============================================================================== "'Shut up,' he explained." -- Ring Lardner ===============================================================================