Subject: Re: Documentation/languages...
To: Patrick Welche <prlw1@cam.ac.uk>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@kuma.web.net>
List: current-users
Date: 05/19/1997 01:19:21
[ On Sun, May 18, 1997 at 11:19:46 (+0100), Patrick Welche wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Documentation/languages...
>
> Aren't there k&r -> ansi converters anyway, much as f2c does for
> Fortran?
Hmm... yes, but none as good as a real compiler. Why convert code you
should be able to just compile -- after all the compiler source is
there, and though there's the obvious bootstrapping problem it shouldn't
be that hard....
C9X is a *new* language. It is not C.
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