18 Jun
2026
18 Jun
'26
11:30 a.m.
On 18/06/2026 8:10 pm, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
As for translating from one language to another, that
was pretty much
standard practice for a long time. GNAT Ada produced C. P2C converted
Pascal to C. F2C the same for Fortran. Early precursors of GNU COBOL
did the same.
Even the first versions of C++ were done that way, through the
"Cfront"
translator (I remember receiving version 0.9 on 9-track tape from Bjarne
Stroustrup himself, after a great evening with too much beer in the
Tivoli in Copenhagen...)
Julf