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=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,41100a78496a4c71 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 11232c,c4ac8be162bc5e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid11232c,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-04 20:11:05 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!psinet-eu-nl!psiuk-p4!uknet!psiuk-p3!uknet!psiuk-n!news.pace.co.uk!nh.pace.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,misc.misc Subject: Re: Nethack! (was): AdaGames Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 09:16:59 -0500 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: References: <598d46834b4ac2b4bffabdacf5ced656.48257@mygate.mailgate.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp-200-133.miami.pace.co.uk X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 1017929820 26253 136.170.200.133 (4 Apr 2002 14:17:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@news.cam.pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 4 Apr 2002 14:17:00 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:22128 misc.misc:6110 Date: 2002-04-04T14:17:00+00:00 List-Id: And, as I will attempt to observe again, none of this gets you a program that is somehow or other substantially different from the original. :-) Someone might do it as a learning exercise - but I could think of more productive learning exercises. Someone might clean up some bugs along the way - but will probably introduce new ones in the process. I just don't see a lot of food-value in translating an existing program into another language - unless, possibly, that other language no longer has a compiler for current technology and you need a translation to something else just to be able to compile it. (But that seems a bit of a stretch. How frequently does that happen?) Anyway, I'll suggest that its a *better* idea to look at something like Nethack and implement a whole new program that perhaps is "inspired" by its predecessor but does something new and different. A "Nethack in Ada" is not likely to set either the Nethack or Ada world afire with newfound enthusiasm and excitement. :-) MDC -- Marin David Condic Senior Software Engineer Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com Enabling the digital revolution e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com "Kent Paul Dolan" wrote in message news:598d46834b4ac2b4bffabdacf5ced656.48257@mygate.mailgate.org... > "tmoran" wrote in message > news:rPQq8.1214$UW.702270680@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com... > > > > A C program translated directly into Ada doesn't really buy you much. > > Attempting the translation will often show up errors in the C program. > > From reading though the code, what, a dozen years or more ago, inventing > Ada-fied ways to do some of the incredibly slick stuff C programmer > students invented for a language with fairly primitive programming > tools, and reimplementing them flawlessly in a pointerless language, is > going to force you to get thoroughly into bed with Ada, too. >