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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: Automated conversion to C++?
Date: 16 Feb 2008 07:41:18 -0600
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In article <47b6d324$0$13594$4d3efbfe@news.sover.net>, "Peter C. Chapin" <pchapin@sover.net> writes:
> Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:
> 
>> Really? I'd like to know how to translate Ada tasking into portable C++ 
>> that will run on "any mainstream operating system".
> 
> Build a C++ library that wraps the threading primitives of several 
> platforms and then generate C++ code that uses that library.

The set "several platforms" is quite a bit smaller than "any mainstream
operating system".