garry@lasspvax.UUCP (Garry Wiegand) (01/12/86)
I have seen many requests for translaters going by recently, but I
think my variation is novel:
Anyone out there doing **PL/1** to C??
I had to do a medium size conversion by hand last year. It took months
to get all the bugs out. Nowe have to do a LARGE one (shudder).
If I can't find such a translating program, there's a good chance we'll
build it ourselves. (It becomes an interesting exercise when you include
translations for nested procedures, label variables, non-local GOTOs,
conditional handlers, etc etc. YES, those can all be done in C. With
hair pulling. NO, I am NOT going to parse PL/1 macros.)
I'm directing followups to net.lang...
garry wiegand
garry@lasspvax.tn.cornell.edu