tom@MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA (04/01/86)
Is there such a beast? If so, I would love to hear about it!! Let me know if you find anything. Thanks, Trevor O. McCarthy The MITRE Corporation
marvit@hplabsb.UUCP (Peter Marvit) (04/08/86)
> > Is there such a beast? If so, I would love to hear about it!! Let me know if > you find anything. > I understand some general public domain attempts are in the works. I *know* of only one, avaliable commercially. I don't know the exact price; I suspect there is some negotiation which could be done. However, it would be in the $1000-3000 range (gulp!). Moreover, it is specifically designed for SVS (Silicon Valley Systems) version of Pascal. For more info, try contacting Russ Salsbury or Erwin Morton @ Syntactics Corp, 3333 Bowers Ave, Santa Clara, CA 94501 (zip ???) or call 408/727-6400. DISCLAIMER OF SORTS: I used to work for them as a documentation person. Their real business is word processors, tho' their backround is compilers. They built the Pascal-to-C for their own use and have commercialized it. They are honest engineers with a vision. I was sorry to leave them, but went on to a completly different field. Good luck, Peter Marvit (...!hplabs!marvit)
daveh@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Dave Haynie) (04/10/86)
In '82 I was working for the Carnegie-Mellon Electrical Engineering
Department on a project that involved translating gobs of Berkley PASCAL
into C. They had a program developed somewhere at CMU that did a degree
of PASCAL to C translation. As I recall its largest problem was that
it couldn't resolve the several levels of nested WITH constructs that
our PASCAL code had. It wasn't a full translator, and I guess from the
WITH problem it had that it was basically just re-arranging text from
PASCAL to C style, it didn't keep a symbol table of PASCAL types which
would have let it resolve some of the tougher things. But if it DID
that I wouldn't have had much of a job. Anyway, you could probably
contact someone at CMU through this net -- I don't know how they'd
feel about distributing the program (ran on a VAX under UNIX), but it
couldn't hurt to ask.
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Dave Haynie {inhp4,allegra,seismo}!cbmvax!daveh
"When the going gets tough, the weird turn pro"