From: "Dr. Adrian Wrigley" <amtw@linuxchip.demon.co.uk.uk.uk>
Subject: Re: Porting Ada code to Linux
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 23:10:46 GMT
Date: 2006-10-31T23:10:46+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <pan.2006.10.31.23.01.27.805595@linuxchip.demon.co.uk.uk.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4547b4eb$1_5@news.bluewin.ch
On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 21:40:39 +0100, Gautier wrote:
> Howard:
>
>> We are porting from a Windows-95 "legacy" system to a new Linux one.
>> The code we are re-writing is Visual Basic, and we are translating it
>> into C++. But, the VB code had a dependancy on a considerable amount
>> of Ada 95 code that the VB code interfaced with via DLLs.
>
> Since VB is syntactically strongly inspired by Ada, it will make more sense to
> translate your VB code into Ada. In addition, linking the translated code to
> the existing Ada code will be *way* easier (just through "with", "use") than
> trying to do that from a C++ code...
Two votes for this plan! (see my other post...)
--
Adrian
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-31 14:17 Porting Ada code to Linux Bill
2006-10-31 14:30 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-10-31 17:38 ` Howard
2006-10-31 18:16 ` Martin Krischik
2006-10-31 20:29 ` Gautier
2006-10-31 20:21 ` Dr. Adrian Wrigley
2006-10-31 20:26 ` Michael Bode
2006-10-31 20:40 ` Gautier
2006-10-31 23:10 ` Dr. Adrian Wrigley [this message]
2006-10-31 20:41 ` Michael Bode
2006-11-01 3:28 ` Steve
2006-11-01 9:03 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-11-01 10:14 ` Alex Buell
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