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From: joho@dutiag.twi.tudelft.nl (Job Honig)
Subject: Re: Modula-2 to Ada translator??
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Organization: Delft University of Technology
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Date: Tue, 6 Dec 1994 10:10:25 GMT
Date: 1994-12-06T10:10:25+00:00
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Tom,
 
> Does anyone know of any Modula-2 to Ada source translators?
>  
> I have 30,000+ lines of an experimental operating system that
> I'd like to start working on again, but I want to use Ada, instead of the
> Modula-2 that it is currently written in.

Probably not the answer you like to hear, but my advice would be to redesign
the code, employing your knowledge of the current system, of course. I have
done this twice, once for Coco, a parser generator for LALR left attributed
grammars, and once for Flex, the well known scanner generator. Both attempts
revealed errors in the original software, that were uncovered by designing
the new system using the higher abstraction level allowed by Ada...

So I would support your requirements analysis (transition to Ada), but not
your proposed implementation (using an source code translator).

Regards,

Job Honig
Delft University of Technology