Re: AW: Translating an embedded C algorithm

[Cesar Rabak <csrabak@yahoo.com.br>]

Robert A Duff escreveu:
> Cesar Rabak <csrabak@yahoo.com.br> writes:
> 
>> Stephen Leake escreveu:
>>> Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> writes:
>> [snipped]
>>> This example program is far too small to show the crucial differences
>>> between C and Ada.
>>>
>> I think you summarized very well the whole issue here!
> 
> But the OP didn't ask anybody to "show the crucial differences between C
> and Ada"; he asked for a simple half-page C function to be translated
> into Ada, which is a perfectly reasonable request. 

Yes.

> I started to do it
> myself, but others have answered that question, so he got more-or-less
> what he asked for. 

OK. I believe he got a handful set of examples.

> He also got "we can't translate simple C into simple
> Ada -- we need to create a hugely complicated mess", and he also got
> "you dope, how dare you ask about Ada when you don't already know Ada".

While I have to agree that hearing from the aisles our internal 
discussion could be described like that, I think we have to think about 
the other side.

A direct translation of a that half page (C language) function, would 
convey very little about Ada, and perhaps lead to a conclusion that is 
just a C (or rather Pascal) like language with a "weird syntax" (pundits 
could step and say all other things we're used, as being verbose, etc.).

So a reasonable (I agree that with less ado) remark that Ada language to 
be used in its full potential would include more code (like was shown in 
the thread already) and a clear and better explanation of the advantages 
of it would have been better advertising of Ada.


> Sigh.

Relieved? :-)