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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,58253cbf46bbb1fc X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local02.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 12:27:13 -0600 From: tmoran@acm.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Automated conversion to C++? References: X-Newsreader: Tom's custom newsreader Message-ID: Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 12:27:13 -0600 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 71.202.183.17 X-Trace: sv3-FkCyZRu15OHWXvjsEuibeHjbpLArphnztj+edsU2xgiBC7O315oI0aDyfWE4M0p05oRRRwLQMLifUVG!qympbrD2PrXH0ERojnsLELp1YhYE7khd1mSH5VRBk7wSmCGnOYErPVadX8JX6omH51YurtK+1QvH!MO8zcYfY9IyrrjVYN5/6KlpDMGutsQ== X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.37 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19827 Date: 2008-02-16T12:27:13-06:00 List-Id: >If you have to supply a C++ program semanticly equivalent to the binary >you deliver, the best choice is to write it in pure C (or C++). One of my first substantial uses of Ada was to create a program that had to be delivered in C. It was much easier to write, correctly, in Ada and the manual transliteration to C wasn't that painful. Of course I was a faster C typist then, and the source was Ada 83 with no tasks. It was not a full, conforming, Ada 2005 to C++ compiler and run time. I was happy and the customer was happy.