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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@d2-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: using charles library
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 11:02:16 +0000 (UTC)
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Gautier Write-only <gautier@somewhere.nil> wrote:
: 
: ... and Pascal is a remarkable example (if not the worst) of
: fragmentation into incompatible dialects - we can forgive it since
: the language was designed for teaching programmation.
: And this is exaclty why a Pascal->Ada translator is useful ;-)!
: And, of course, a translator must understand the most possible
: dialects. It should translate "bih:=1.e-5;" into "bih:=1.0e-5;"
: and go on, instead of stopping.

Does it warn Pascal authors when they use non-standard
constructs? (Assuming there are people who carelessly write Pascal and
then translate to Ada, because they have to deliver Ada.)
It might bring some of Ada's "standard advantages" to their
attention.


-- Georg