> Our experience (and that of several customers) is that the effort to
> transition for Ada83 to Ada95 is less than effort to port from one C++
> compiler family to another. ....
My experience porting a MegaSLOC, 17,000 file Ada 83 product is that going
from Ada 83 to Ada 95 is not as simple as predicted. Nevertheless, I
would agree with the above statement. We had to change less than 318
files--and at least 20% of those werely poorly coded anyway. (I say less
than, because we took the time to do things right, not merely get them to
compile.)
But they don't have to look at the long-term stupidity. In the
short-term, they're talking about throwing away the maintainability
advantages of Ada in exchange for what? For the HIGH expense of
translating to C++ ?!?!?