[net.sources] PASCAL to C ?

zrgc002%dtuzdv5a.bitnet@wiscvm.wisc.edu (Christoph D. Gatzka) (01/16/87)

Is there any PASCAL to C converter out there. We have C but not PASCAL on
our unix machine. Is it free domain ?

 Christoph D. Gatzka                zrgc002@dtuzdv5a.bitnet
 Student of medicine

 University of Tuebingen
 Germany

black@ee.ucla.edu (Rex Black) (01/21/87)

> Is there any PASCAL to C converter out there. We have C but not PASCAL on
> our unix machine. Is it free domain ?
> 
>  Christoph D. Gatzka                zrgc002@dtuzdv5a.bitnet

Sounds great!  Tell you what, Chris, if you find one, post it on the
net and convince everyone to run it on every single pascal program
extant in the world today, then execute "rm pascal" (or whatever the
compiler is called) on every computer, then burn every copy of the 
Jensen/Wirth "Std. Pascal" manual.

As soon as we can do this for Cobol, Basic and Fartran too, we'll be well on
our way to guaranteeing that people program with quality languages, not 
computerized practical jokes.

Rex Black
	
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"If programmer's wrote programs the way language designers design
 languages, the first slide rule that came along would obsolete the
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