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,c0f035b936128b6c X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,c0f035b936128b6c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony) Subject: Re: Ada95 to ANSI_C converter Date: 1997/03/31 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 229701365 Distribution: world References: <5hbrah$ctt$1@gail.ripco.com> Organization: PSI Public Usenet Link Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c Date: 1997-03-31T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes: > Jon says > > < C which is then intended to be read and maintained by humans". Using > this definition, then his points are relevant. But, it seems from > what you've said a few times now, that you are really looking for a > "converter" which compiles Ada to C. Using this definition I believe > Robert would say that, while there may be some issues, this is > certainly doable and may well have been done.>> > > Yes, this has been done for Ada 83, and could be done for Ada 95. The > resulting C is fundamentally inefficient, and completely unreadable. Hmmm, _fundamentally_ inefficient? I'm not confinced. Of course, it definitely will be completely unreadable. > So the question is: what would it be good for, and the answer is as > an intermediate language in some cases, but I can't see man y such > cases. Well, wasn't it ICC that marketed such a thing for real work? I'm not sure they'd agree with you. In fact, I recall yourself claiming that there was nothing "fundamentally" wrong with the approach. > In virtually all cases, people asking for Ada to C translation are NOT > asking for this kind of approach! Perhaps. But that is irrelevant. The specific case is whether Jennifer wants this approach, and it's unclear why people should presume what it is she really wants and then trash her for it. /Jon -- Jon Anthony Organon Motives, Inc. Belmont, MA 02178 617.484.3383 jsa@organon.com