From: jsa@organon.com (Jon S Anthony)
Subject: Re: Looking for an Ada to C translator
Date: 1996/05/17
Date: 1996-05-17T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <JSA.96May17134606@organon.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 009A25C9.36E3E440.18@iberia.cca.rockwell.com
In article <319C281B.6B6@ix.netcom.com> Jeff Pimper <jeffyp@ix.netcom.com> writes:
> I have the same problem. A large, old Ada83 code which uses both Motif
> and Sherrill-Lubinsky's GMS which runs on an Open VMS Alpha. My
> management wants me to translate it to C or C++ running on an HP Unix
> box.
The "translate it to C or C++" is probably going to be the least of
your trouble/worries. I would guess that there is a _lot_ of VMS
specific stuff scattered all over your code (yeah, I know that is
another unfortunate issue, but I would be surprised if it were not
true). Starlet stuff for example. If not for this sort of thing, if
your management had any sense (yeah, I know I'm dreaming...) and they
wanted to move to HPUX, they'd port the thing over to Gnat on HP.
Really, the idea that translating to C/C++ is going to help here in
any way is just a joke. A pathetic one at that. Hmmm, I see it is
even _worse_ than that as you are employed by someone for whom I and
everyone else here is footing the bill. Pissing away our money like
this only reinforces the idea that the government is run by clueless
fools.
/Jon
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Jon Anthony
Organon Motives, Inc.
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Belmont, MA 02178
617.484.3383
jsa@organon.com
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1996-05-15 0:00 Looking for an Ada to C translator Michael Cook
1996-05-15 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-05-17 0:00 ` Jeff Pimper
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