From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,7972cb596f5c5a22 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!news-in.ntli.net!newsrout1-win.ntli.net!ntli.net!news.highwinds-media.com!newspeer1-win.ntli.net!newsfe7-win.ntli.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Dr. Adrian Wrigley" Subject: Re: Porting Ada code to Linux User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2 (This is not a psychotic episode. It's a cleansing moment of clarity.) Message-Id: Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <1162304266.131951.152900@e64g2000cwd.googlegroups.com> <1162316294.922457.113520@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> <4547b4eb$1_5@news.bluewin.ch> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 23:10:46 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.10.238.153 X-Trace: newsfe7-win.ntli.net 1162336246 82.10.238.153 (Tue, 31 Oct 2006 23:10:46 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 23:10:46 GMT Organization: NTL Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:7312 Date: 2006-10-31T23:10:46+00:00 List-Id: 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