Re: Jovial To Ada Translator

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From: Marin David Condic, 407.796.8997, M/S 731-93
Subject: Re: Jovial To Ada Translator
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Eric L. Beser" <eric.beser@GSFC.NASA.GOV> writes:
>
>We have about 7-10K lines of Jovial that needs to be translated
>into Ada95. Is there a tool that is available that can do this?
>
Have you considered buying a 6 pack and some jelly doughnuts for
your favorite Jovial/Ada literate programmer and getting him to
do the job over a weekend? :-)

If the only need is for a 7-10K translation, I'd suggest you're
going to spend more time finding, learning how to use, and
debugging the results of an automatic translator than you would
to simply jump in there and do it. Most of Jovial has
corresponding Ada features so it would mostly be a syntactic
effort.

Pax,
Marin
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