From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony)
Subject: Re: WANTED: Ada-to-C Translator
Date: 1996/10/11
Date: 1996-10-11T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <JSA.96Oct11153945@alexandria> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.844905676@merv
In article <53im9c$10jc@news.ccit.arizona.edu> frank@bigdog.engr.arizona.edu (Frank Manning) writes:
> Keith asked:
>
> >> Is there an Ada-To-C translator and where can I find it?
>
> Robert answers:
>
> > This question has been answered many times on CLA, if you read CLA it is
> > hard to believe you have missed these answers, but here goes again once
> > more with the answer.
> >
> > NO!
>
> To quote from the guy in Cool Hand Luke, what we have here is a failure
> to communicate.
Yeah, but one wonders why...
> Erik Magnuson writes:
>
> > In a former life, I used to use such a beast daily [...]
>
> B|rje Norden or Robert Dewar said (diffcult to tell in
> <dewar.844515554@schonberg>:
>
> > It is a possible path to an interesting level of portability for the
> > Ada compiler, which is why it has been used for at least one Ada
> > compiler in the past.
>
> I assume that "No" really means "Yes, they've existed in the past, but
> no, they're not available today."
No, "NO!" means just that - no. The bit you reference here concerns
an Ada _compiler_ which happened to use C as a backend target (for
"portability" and whatever...) While a compiler is a translator, the
original question seems to really be one concerning a translator which
would produce _human_ readable/maintainable code for all future
reference. That is, you use it once and toss the source and start
manually maintaining the output. This sort of thing is _very_
different and is the source of all the "NO"s...
/Jon
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Jon Anthony
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-10-07 0:00 WANTED: Ada-to-C Translator Keith E. Nicewarner
1996-10-09 0:00 ` Ian Ward
1996-10-09 0:00 ` Frank Manning
1996-10-09 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-09 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-10 0:00 ` Frank Manning
1996-10-14 0:00 ` David Weller
1996-10-25 0:00 ` sarner-ba-md
1996-10-11 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony [this message]
1996-10-12 0:00 ` Frank Manning
1996-10-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-14 0:00 ` Corey Minyard
1996-10-16 0:00 ` Bev Lightfoot
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