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From: pontius@btv.MBI.com.invalid (Dale Pontius)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Porting Ada to C (Stealth development)
Date: 17 Jan 2002 14:44:20 GMT
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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