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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,32cfbb718858528b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-09 14:43:20 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!nntp-relay.ihug.net!ihug.co.nz!cox.net!news-xfer2.newshosting.com!nntp2.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nntp3.aus1.giganews.com!bin4.nnrp.aus1.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Sender: Stephe@TAKVER Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Commercial C To Ada 95 compiler References: <3D002D11.CC706952@adaworks.com> From: Stephen Leake Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-GC-Trace: gv1-FaL5H1Ld1AeILcCk3+B48SEbnqJ0Nbs6xC//6I= NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2002 16:43:04 CDT Organization: Giganews.Com - Premium News Outsourcing X-Trace: sv3-wkbjvLDQ1XR4xsPzRhS7+BgRLzF1pBCnCr/Fu/DZ0WkVmYv/hFsfpvR9WvPw6f6yz3y/h0I5FAVuqW4!KqlBpDRG5WPfhJ4NMWzNQaoXieVyB8XT65vVCo+wXe56nEQaAX+78w== X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2002 21:43:04 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:25630 Date: 2002-06-09T21:43:04+00:00 List-Id: "Marin David Condic" 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. -- -- Stephe