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From: Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>
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Subject: Re: example of machine generated Ada ?
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2013 08:14:33 +0200
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On 13-10-03 07:10 , Robert Love wrote:
> On 2013-10-02 17:37:04 +0000, Patrick said:
> 
>> Hi Everyone
>>
>> I am just daydreaming about generating Ada from another language.
>>
>> Several languages use C as an intermediate language but hand written C
>> is hard to read and machine generated is even more painful. Ada might
>> make for reliable, readable machine generated code.
>>
>> Thanks-Patrick
> 
> There was a product in the 90s called Matrixx, it let you draw flow
> charts and type in algorithms and drag connections between components
> your created graphically.  You pushed the button and out popped some of
> the ugliest Ada you can imagine.  My point is you can have code
> generators but there is no guarantee of the quality, readablity or
> maintainablity.

If I remember correctly, the motivation for including a goto statement
in Ada was that automatic code generators might need it. This perhaps
shows what kind of code was expected from such generators...

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Niklas Holsti
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