From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1014db,4dd2bd034f4d0d4a X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4dd2bd034f4d0d4a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony) Subject: Re: WANTED: Ada-to-C Translator Date: 1996/10/11 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 188801138 sender: news@organon.com (news) references: <325963A3.3074@rapnet.sanders.lockheed.com> organization: Organon Motives, Inc. newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c Date: 1996-10-11T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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 > : > > > 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 -- Jon Anthony Organon Motives, Inc. Belmont, MA 02178 617.484.3383 jsa@organon.com