Feasibility Assessment of JOVIAL to Ada Translation.

Abstract

The Ada program is part of a DoD policy change towards incrementally reducing the number of languages in use by the DoD from many to only a few and then eventually to just one; Ada. Currently, is the Air Force standard language for use in the embedded application domain. One approach towards an earlier transition of all software written in Ada would be the development of an automatic J73 to Ada translation system. With the translation of all J73 software into Ada, J73 software development systems could be phased out of use, the cost of maintaining the J73 system could be recovered, and programmers would be freed earlier for their eventual transition to Ada. This paper will examine the feasibility and cost effectiveness of developing a J73 to Ada translation system.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1983
Accession Number
ADA134857

Entities

People

  • D. H. Ehrenfried

Organizations

  • Wright Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Aeronautical Laboratories
  • Air Force
  • Application Software
  • Automatic
  • Classification
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Cost Effectiveness
  • Costs
  • Department Of Defense
  • Embedded Systems
  • Language
  • Machine Languages
  • Reliability
  • Standards
  • Translations

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Computational Linguistics
  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis
  • Software Verification and Validation.