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From: Simon Wright <simon@pogner.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Delphi & Ada; Ada to C++
Date: 1998/02/21
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dweller@universe.digex.net (David  Weller) writes:

> In article <01bd3cc5$a74ff160$LocalHost@xhv46.dial.pipex.com>,
> Nick Roberts <Nick.Roberts@dial.pipex.com> wrote:
> >Machine translation is certainly possible.  Since GNAT produces C code (and
> >C++ is pretty well a superset of C), this suggests a possibility (doubtless
> 
> 
> NO NO NO NO!!!

And even if it did, it's unlikely that you would be able to make a lot
of sense of it. Names would be mangled, strange and wonderful
constructs would appear, ... (just think about exceptions, generics,
...) you would not want to maintain the result!