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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,92892151eecb310d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-01-18 06:12:20 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!portc03.blue.aol.com!newsjunkie.ans.net!news.chips.ibm.com!newsfeed.btv.ibm.com!news.btv.ibm.com!not-for-mail From: pontius@btv.MBI.com.invalid (Dale Pontius) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Porting Ada to C (Stealth development) Date: 18 Jan 2002 14:12:17 GMT Organization: IBM Global Services North -- Burlington, Vermont, USA Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: kimon.btv.ibm.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: news.btv.ibm.com 1011363137 26804 9.61.131.227 (18 Jan 2002 14:12:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@btv.ibm.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 18 Jan 2002 14:12:17 GMT X-Newsreader: knews 1.0b.0 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19046 Date: 2002-01-18T14:12:17+00:00 List-Id: In article , Dan Andreatta 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)