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From: sakkinen@tukki.jyu.fi (Markku Sakkinen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: ending a language war (was "proposal for Ada preprocessor")
Message-ID: <2542@tukki.jyu.fi>
Date: 23 Dec 89 13:04:17 GMT
References: <3285@cbnewsl.ATT.COM> <7423@hubcap.clemson.edu> <1989Dec22.235145.3195@ico.isc.com>
Reply-To: sakkinen@jytko.jyu.fi (Markku Sakkinen)
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In article <1989Dec22.235145.3195@ico.isc.com> rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn) writes:
- ...
-So...we know that we can preprocess C++ -> C.  I suspect one can preprocess
-to get C -> Ada.  Combine the two and you've got a tool analogous to
-"Classic Ada" except that its input looks like C++. [...]

I am afraid the semantics of C (and C++) is much too nasty for translation
to any high-level language. Just think about its wild ways with pointers!

Markku Sakkinen
Department of Computer Science
University of Jyvaskyla (a's with umlauts)
Seminaarinkatu 15
SF-40100 Jyvaskyla (umlauts again)
Finland