• Re: =?UTF-8?B?4oCcREFSUEE=?= suggests turning old C code automatically

    From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to Lynn McGuire on Wed Aug 7 23:56:10 2024
    On Mon, 5 Aug 2024 16:02:11 -0500, Lynn McGuire wrote:

    I have never used a code translator that converted 100% of the code
    properly.

    Some of that C code might itself have originated from older code in JOVIAL
    or NELIAC or something else that most folks in this group have never heard
    of. They probably used automatic translation techniques for some of it, to
    move it to Ada or C or whatever in the first place.

    In other words, it’s very likely they’ve been down this road before, it’s just the details (the languages involved, the translation techniques
    available) have evolved a bit.

    (Was there mention of moving the Ada code to some newer language? I
    thought not. Just the C code, then.)

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