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From: kent@xanth.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Affordable Ada (was Re: Assembly language (was: Re: Another 1.3 wish.))
Message-ID: <2304@xanth.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 31-Dec-69 18:59:59 EDT
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Posted: Wed Dec 31 18:59:59 1969
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Reply-To: kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan)
Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk Va.
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Keywords: No affordable validated home Ada compilers.  Big win!
Summary: How about a modula II -> Ada translator?

In article <389@trwspf.TRW.COM> dragon@trwspf.UUCP (Roger Vossler) writes:
>In article <2176@xanth.UUCP> kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
>* [stuff of mine you've already seen twice]
>Although we are a large defense contractor and are using Ada, members of
>my group have used Modula-2 very successfully on a number of efforts
>internally. Modula-2 makes a very nice, small, cheap, fast, and powerful
>subset of Ada, particularly, when we have to pay for it out of our own
>pockets. 8-) Taxpayers may not be too concerned about how their money is
>spent, but stockholders are less charitable.
>-- 
>-- Roger Vossler

Just to argue with my own previous posting ( a different one ), it
seems to me that since Modula II successfully incorporates a lot of
the same software engineering concepts as Ada(tm) and is a lot cheaper
for the home user and a lot easier to learn for almost everyone ( so
I've heard, my OXXI BENCHMARK compiler hasn't arrived yet, darn it! ),
it seems to me that a machine translation from Modula II to Ada could
be a pretty big win as a commercial and home product.  Comments?

Kent, the man from xanth.