Re: Commercial C To Ada 95 compiler

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@acm.org>]

"Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org> writes:

> Lots of times, we're confronted with problems for which there are only
> butt-ugly solutions:
> 
> "I want to use this Ada compiler to develop all the new chunks of code for
> this system & I don't want to be maintaining stuff in multiple languages, so
> I've got to find a quick way of getting everything changed into Ada. If it
> costs too much to convert, I'll just have to abandon the effort..."

I understand this is your example, but I'd like to point out that with
modern compilers, maintaining code in multiple languages is not as
hard as many people seem to think.

Gnu C and Gnu Ada link together, and work very well together. The same
is true of Greenhills Ada and Greenhills C (although I have not
personally used that combination). 

So keeping parts of the original C while converting parts to Ada
should be given serious consideration.

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-- Stephe