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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: Where is the elusive jump command?
Date: 2000/04/12
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"Tarjei T. Jensen" <tarjei.jensen@kvaerner.com> writes:

> Marin D. Condic wrote
> >And if the only argument against it is the tons of existing math
> >libraries, then theres Ada's interface capability to argue in its favor.
> >
> >Its a market that could be tapped - and maybe one that isn't already
> >anti-Ada biased. Hmmmmmmmmm........
>
> The modula-2 compiler moca comes with a "compiler" which rewrites the
> source to readable C (the author claims). The kit used for this is
> cocktail.
> It should be  possible to do the same for an fortran to Ada translator.

But it's easier to translate a higher-level language into a lower-level
language, than the other way around.

- Bob