Re: My Ada Future

["Chad R. Meiners" <crmeiners@hotmail.com>]

"Robert I. Eachus" <rieachus@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:FvOdnTelZorKWVmi4p2dnA@comcast.com...
> I used to cheat, and when I have to have code written in C, it still
> works.  For something budgeted at say a month in C, I can spend one week
> developing it in Ada, a few days writting a rigorous test suite, then
> transform the code into C one routine at a time.  I always seemed to be
> able to finish well within schedule, and still get the much higher
> quality associated with Ada.  The only thing you have to watch is a
> tendancy to "think C" while coding the Ada.  You need to use the full
> richness of Ada, especially in the interfaces before tranforming to C,
> or you let bugs leak through.

I use to do this with programming assignments when professors wouldn't let
me turn in assignments written Ada.  I agree that this is a surprisingly
useful technique.

-CRM