From: sakkinen@tukki.jyu.fi (Markku Sakkinen)
Subject: Re: ending a language war (was "proposal for Ada preprocessor")
Date: 23 Dec 89 13:04:17 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2542@tukki.jyu.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1989Dec22.235145.3195@ico.isc.com
In article <1989Dec22.235145.3195@ico.isc.com> rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn) writes:
- ...
-So...we know that we can preprocess C++ -> C. I suspect one can preprocess
-to get C -> Ada. Combine the two and you've got a tool analogous to
-"Classic Ada" except that its input looks like C++. [...]
I am afraid the semantics of C (and C++) is much too nasty for translation
to any high-level language. Just think about its wild ways with pointers!
Markku Sakkinen
Department of Computer Science
University of Jyvaskyla (a's with umlauts)
Seminaarinkatu 15
SF-40100 Jyvaskyla (umlauts again)
Finland
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1989-12-12 20:30 Dave Emery's proposal for Ada preprocessor Daniel Lee
1989-12-13 14:31 ` arny.b.engelson
1989-12-13 22:23 ` Michael Schwartz
1989-12-14 14:47 ` William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1989-12-14 15:11 ` Steve Tynor
1989-12-14 20:40 ` William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1989-12-22 23:51 ` ending a language war (was "proposal for Ada preprocessor") Dick Dunn
1989-12-23 13:04 ` Markku Sakkinen [this message]
1989-12-26 21:59 ` Preprocessors & the "spirit of Ada" William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
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