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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Ada95 to ANSI_C converter
Date: 1997/03/28
Date: 1997-03-28T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.859559582@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5hfagl$frr@mtinsc05.worldnet.att.net


Craig says

<<It may be impractical. Is there a lot of code to convert, and
will you use this converter for other projects? The simplest
way to convert would be to have one group of Ada programmers
convert the Ada program to a PDL description of the code, along
with constraints and specifications.>>

I doubt that is a helpful suggestion -- PDL is just another programming
language, and there are difficulties in convering from Ada to PDL, and
difficulties in convering from PDL to C. Yes, I know PDL is designed
to ease these difficulties, but in practice, if you are starting with
well written Ada code, I do not think using PDL as an intermediate
step will help, and if you are starting with poorly written Ada code,
then you will probably do better to reengineer in any case.





  reply	other threads:[~1997-03-28  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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1997-03-26  0:00 ` Ada95 to ANSI_C converter Nick Roberts
1997-03-26  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-27  0:00     ` Jennifer E. Lee
1997-03-28  0:00       ` Craig Franck
1997-03-28  0:00         ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1997-03-28  0:00     ` Steve Doiel
1997-03-28  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-02  0:00         ` Richard Kenner
1997-04-02  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-02  0:00             ` Robert A Duff
1997-04-04  0:00               ` Keith Thompson
1997-04-04  0:00                 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-07  0:00                   ` Arthur Schwarz
1997-04-07  0:00                     ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-08  0:00                       ` Robert A Duff
1997-04-07  0:00                     ` Peter Seebach
1997-04-07  0:00                       ` Kaz Kylheku
1997-04-08  0:00                   ` Keith Thompson
1997-04-02  0:00             ` Richard Kenner
1997-04-02  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-02  0:00       ` Richard Kenner
1997-04-03  0:00         ` Fergus Henderson
1997-03-27  0:00   ` Craig Franck
1997-03-27  0:00     ` Jennifer E. Lee
1997-03-27  0:00   ` Jennifer E. Lee
1997-03-27  0:00     ` Philip Johnson
1997-04-01  0:00       ` Jennifer E. Lee
1997-04-02  0:00         ` Philip E. Johnson
1997-04-03  0:00       ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-28  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-28  0:00       ` Craig Franck
1997-03-28  0:00         ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-01  0:00     ` David Kristola
1997-04-01  0:00       ` Jennifer E. Lee
1997-04-01  0:00     ` Tom Wheeley
1997-04-01  0:00   ` Robert I. Eachus
1997-03-27  0:00 ` Jeff Carter
1997-03-28  0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-28  0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-28  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-02  0:00   ` Jon S Anthony
1997-04-03  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-04  0:00     ` Jon S Anthony
1997-04-03  0:00   ` Jon S Anthony
1997-04-03  0:00     ` Robert A Duff
1997-04-03  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-03  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-04  0:00   ` Jon S Anthony
1997-04-04  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-04  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-07  0:00   ` Jon S Anthony
1997-04-07  0:00   ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-31  0:00 ` David Emery
1997-03-31  0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-31  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-01  0:00   ` Robert A Duff
1997-04-03  0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-04-03  0:00   ` Jennifer E. Lee
1997-04-04  0:00 ` Howard W. LUDWIG
1997-04-16  0:00 Dan Lehman
1997-04-17  0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-20  0:00   ` Nick Roberts
1997-04-20  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
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