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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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Date: 1997-03-28T00:00:00+00:00
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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!