Re: Porting Ada to C (Stealth development)

[Brian Rogoff <bpr@bpr.best.vwh.net>]

On 18 Jan 2002, Dale Pontius wrote:
> In article <3C47375B.8060604@worldnet.att.net>,
>         Jim Rogers <jimmaureenrogers@worldnet.att.net> writes:
> > Dale Pontius wrote:
> >
> >> I am taking up some new work, and would like to do it in Ada. However
> >> there is a strong 'Do it in C so others can pick it up' bias, which I
> >> guess makes some sense. So I'd like to do my development in Ada, and

Fuggedaboutit.

Better to just use some decent C libraries

	http://www.cs.princeton.edu/software/cii

and a tool like splint http://www.splint.org/ to make your C as clean
and type safe as possible.

> > Actually, it makes no sense, but opening that can or worms begins the
> > language war. If a person is a competent C programmer he or she should
> > be able to learn a new language with minimal effort. My own experience
> > is that it was easier to learn Ada, knowing C first, than it was to
> > read and understand a lot of C programs.

I agree completely with Jim Rogers, but getting an organization to adopt
a language because one programmer likes it is nearly impossible.

> Doesn't matter. This is a rather conservative area, and "C is the way
> to program, though perhaps C++ or Java would be OK." Note that this is
> also not a programming area, it's silicon design. Sometimes you have
> to turn part-time programmer to get the silicon out. This is one of
> those.

There are lots of C (and C++) as HDL tools floating about too. None for
Ada.

-- Brian