Re: C++ to Ada translator?

[Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>]

Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> writes:

> Ira Baxter wrote:
> > Lots of icky details invariably show up.
> 
> I meant templates and multiple inheritance when I talked
> about losing the C++ nature in the translated code.

Yes, these are rather difficult problems.

But I think the way to judge these things is to think about what a good
human programmer would write in Ada, in a case where a good C++
programmer chose to use, say, multiple inheritance.  It seems unfair to
expect *more* from a tool than one could expect from a human programmer.

The fact that multiple inheritance translates into something less
readable in Ada is not the fault of the translator -- it's caused by the
fact that Ada doesn't have multiple inheritance.  (This of course
presumes that you believe multiple inheritance makes for readable code,
at least in *some* cases.  Some would dispute that, but it's irrelevant
to my main point.)

- Bob