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!news3.google.com!news2.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!wns13feed!worldnet.att.net!attbi_s22.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Automated conversion to C++? References: <47b6d324$0$13594$4d3efbfe@news.sover.net> <5bb30e3a-479b-4feb-be5e-e777edf778c9@q78g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <5bb30e3a-479b-4feb-be5e-e777edf778c9@q78g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.201.97.213 X-Complaints-To: abuse@mchsi.com X-Trace: attbi_s22 1203181934 12.201.97.213 (Sat, 16 Feb 2008 17:12:14 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 17:12:14 GMT Organization: AT&T ASP.att.net Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 17:12:14 GMT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19824 Date: 2008-02-16T17:12:14+00:00 List-Id: Maciej Sobczak wrote: > > Let's severely limit the set "several platforms" to {POSIX, Windows}. > That's a really small set. Much smaller than the set of "any mainstream operating systems". In any case, I was talking about translating Ada to C++, not about building a custom library and translating Ada to C++ and the custom library. That would not be an Ada-to-C++ translator, but an Ada-to-C++-and-custom-library translator. -- Jeff Carter "Apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?" Monty Python's Life of Brian 80