Re: Porting Ada to C (Stealth development)

[pontius@btv.MBI.com.invalid (Dale Pontius)]

In article <Xns9199960B37554andreattamailchemsce@12.253.140.251>,
        Dan Andreatta <andreatta@mail.chem.sc.edu.REMOVEME> writes:
> 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.

I can live with conversion to C++, but I can't live with commercial.
Using Ada will be a stealth issue. Anything above-board would have to
be C, C++, or perhaps Java.

Dale Pontius
(NOT speaking for IBM)