Re: Automated conversion to C++?

["Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@acm.nospam.org>]

Maciej Sobczak wrote:
> 
> Again: Which members of "any mainstream operating systems" are not yet
> covered?

I'm sure Kilgallen will object if VMS is not included. IBM mainframes are still 
widely used in the business world.

> Is it OK if along the same line of reasoning I say that it is not
> possible to compile Ada to machine code?

If you so choose. Generally a compiler creates executables, so creating the 
runtime is part of creating a compiler. A language-A-to-language-B translator, 
on the other hand, is supposed to be a smaller task and exclude the need for 
such things. Since the SofCheck compiler that outputs C includes the necessary 
runtime, I think it reasonable that they call it a compiler rather than a 
translator.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"Apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine,
public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system,
and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?"
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