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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: =?UTF-8?B?4oCcREFSUEE=?= suggests turning old C code
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Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2024 23:56:10 -0000 (UTC)
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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.)