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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Ada95 to ANSI_C converter
Date: 1997/03/28
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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.