Re: Porting Ada to C (Stealth development)

[Ray Blaak <blaak@telus.net>]

Larry Hazel <lhhazel@otelco.net> writes:
> The few times I have been required to write in C, I wrote Ada anyway.  Then
> commented out the ada and hand translated to C.  The only comments were the
> Ada code and comments that were originally in the Ada code.

I guess I am fundamentally a lazy programmer.

Why implement it twice? This increases the chance for errors and is more work.

When (not if!) you fix a bug, do you fix only the C code, or the Ada as well?
How do you test the Ada fixes?

If you have to write in a particular programming language (I mean just *have*
to), it is fundamentally more efficient to write directly in that language,
even if that language is deficient, using that language's mode of thought
(influenced, of course, by the wisdom that Ada experience provides).

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