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