Re: Porting Ada to C (Stealth development)

[Dan Andreatta <andreatta@mail.chem.sc.edu.REMOVEME>]

pontius@btv.MBI.com.invalid (Dale Pontius) wrote in 
news:a26o04$jfc$1@news.btv.ibm.com:

> 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
> have the occasional conversion to C to play well with others. This
> probably needs to be free, as well, since it wouldn't cost money if
> if I just started the project in C. (Can't justify) I did a quick scan
> at www.adahome.org without luck. I'll also need to link in C libs, but
> that should be straightforward and in the documentation.
> 
> At the moment, I'm not going to fight any sort of C vs Ada battles,
> and I'd just as soon keep it completely under the table. Iff I start
> to show spectacular developmental speed and track record for bugs,
> then I might surface it. I may have managed to win a minor VHDL vs
> Verilog fight for part (but not all) of the project, because Verilog
> couldn't describe everything that needed done as simply as VHDL. I'm
> not going to push my luck.
> 
> So for the moment, I need an Ada to C converter, and comments on how
> human-readable the resulting code is.
> 
> Thanks,
> Dale Pontius


If you can live with C++, you could take a look at www.ada2cc.com.