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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.859584395@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: JSA.97Mar28134228@alexandria


Jon says

<<I think Robert is taking "conversion" to me "translate the Ada95 into
C which is then intended to be read and maintained by humans".  Using
this definition, then his points are relevant.  But, it seems from
what you've said a few times now, that you are really looking for a
"converter" which compiles Ada to C.  Using this definition I believe
Robert would say that, while there may be some issues, this is
certainly doable and may well have been done.>>

Yes, this has been done for Ada 83, and could be done for Ada 95. The
resulting C is fundamentally inefficient, and completely unreadable.

So the question is: what would it be good for, and the answer is as
an intermediate language in some cases, but I can't see man y such
cases.

In virtually all cases, people asking for Ada to C translation are NOT
asking for this kind of approach!





  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
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             ` 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                     ` Peter Seebach
1997-04-07  0:00                       ` Kaz Kylheku
1997-04-07  0:00                     ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-08  0:00                       ` Robert A Duff
1997-04-08  0:00                   ` Keith Thompson
1997-04-02  0:00       ` Richard Kenner
1997-04-03  0:00         ` Fergus Henderson
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
1997-03-27  0:00   ` Craig Franck
1997-03-27  0:00     ` Jennifer E. Lee
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   ` Robert Dewar [this message]
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
1997-03-28  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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