slavitch@spock (Michael Slavitch) (11/24/89)
Hi,
For those on comp.unix.questions, this is not a unix question, but rather a unix _tool_ question.
I've had a chance to browse through the uunet tape at our site and I
noticed that an ANSI Pascal -> c converter is available on it. Unfortunately,
there is no c -> ANSI Pascal converter on that tape. Would there be someone,
somewhere in netville that would have access to such? It would make life here
a lot easier. Hand-translating state tables from c to Pascal is akin to the
sound of fingernails scratching on a chalkboard.
If it sounds like I'm begging. It's only because I am.
Please E-mail a response to me, rather than posting. I may not be able
to monitor all these newsgroups.
Michael.
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------antony@lbl-csam.arpa (Antony A. Courtney) (11/25/89)
I highly doubt there is or will ever be a C to Pascal converter. Show me pointers to functions in Pascal and maybe I'll start to consider it a _REAL_ language! :-) antony -- ******************************************************************************* Antony A. Courtney antony@lbl.gov Advanced Development Group ucbvax!lbl-csam.arpa!antony Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory AACourtney@lbl.gov
sakkinen@tukki.jyu.fi (Markku Sakkinen) (11/26/89)
In article <4289@helios.ee.lbl.gov> antony@lbl-csam.arpa (Antony A. Courtney) writes: > >I highly doubt there is or will ever be a C to Pascal converter. I agree - but not _only_ because of the weakness of Pascal. The semantics of C is so irregular that I doubt the feasibility of a converter from C to _any_ high-level language (I didn't say 'any other' because I classify C as a medium-level language). >Show me pointers to functions in Pascal and maybe I'll start to consider it a >_REAL_ language! :-) All right: any function appearing as a formal parameter of another function or procedure is in effect a pointer to a function; you didn't say it should be a first-class type (or variable). :-) Markku Sakkinen Department of Computer Science University of Jyvaskyla (a's with umlauts) Seminaarinkatu 15 SF-40100 Jyvaskyla (umlauts again) Finland
karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) (11/27/89)
In article <4289@helios.ee.lbl.gov> antony@lbl-csam.arpa (Antony A. Courtney) writes: >I highly doubt there is or will ever be a C to Pascal converter. It's certainly possible, since the two languages are TM-equivalent. >Show me pointers to functions in Pascal ... One way to emulate this feature would be to keep track of the functions whose addresses are taken, and use an integer index instead: long (*pf)(); ==> var pf: 0..MAX_INDEX; pf = &f; ==> pf := INDEX_CORRESPONDING_TO_F; r = (*pf)(i); ==> if pf = 0 then r := f(i) else ... This isn't much worse than the cruft required to get sane string handling. Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint (Language-specific followups should go to c.l.c or c.l.pascal as appropriate. Default followups to c.l.misc.)
randy@m2xenix.UUCP (Randy Bush) (11/29/89)
Knowledge Software (Derek Jones) in the UK did one for MS-DROSS, but not if or
how well it works. Executable, not source, is available from the FidoNet
syatem at +1(503)297-9145, aka 1:105/6, as KSW-CTOP.LZH.
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