Re: basic ada question

["Steve" <nospam_steved94@comcast.net>]

"Randy" <abuse@127.0.0.1> wrote in message 
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> Steve wrote:
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>> A few years ago I translated a bunch of Pascal source code to Ada using a 
>> tool I obtained through this newsgroup.  I tweaked the sources of the 
>> translator to qualify all of the names in the procedure and function 
>> calls in the generated Ada code.  In most cases it made the code more 
>> readable than the original Pascal sources.  It also identified a number 
>> of bugs.
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>> Steve
>> (The Duck)
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> Hi.  That sounds like an interesting tool.  Do you have a link to it still 
> or perhaps I can get a copy through email?
> Thanks a lot :)
> (Does it have source too? or just binary?)
> Randy

I will email the original author of the translator to see if he has any 
objections to my passing on the sources.

A couple of notes:
  The module was written specifically to translate VAXeln Pascal (EPascal).
  Comments in the sources are very sparse (it took me a long time to make 
revisions).
  The translation was not complete, but was probably better than 95%.
  It got a few (though very few) things wrong.

It's been a while, but as I recall after running the translator it took 
about 20 minutes per KSLOC to fix up the translated code.

Steve
(The Duck)