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From: bb16@prism.gatech.EDU (Scott Bostater)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: C to Pascal translator
Summary: Not so hot
Keywords: ctopas
Message-ID: <4167@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 6 Dec 89 19:45:31 GMT
References: <6265@lindy.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: bb16@prism.gatech.EDU (Scott Bostater)
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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In article <6265@lindy.Stanford.EDU> LC.YRS@forsythe.stanford.edu (Richard Stanton) writes:
>Someone was asking about a C to Pascal translator recently. I have
>seen such a beast in file pc/programmer/ctopas.zip on chyde.uwasa.fi
>(128.214.12.3). It seems very short, so I don't suppose it does too
>much, but it may be of interest.
>

I have a copy of ctopas. My version was less than useful. It mainly does simple
conversion ( /* -> {, { -> Begin, } -> End, etc.) and thats all. There was no
re-working of the syntax for for loops or variable declarations. The worst part
was that the program was written in C (MSC) and did not come with a compiled 
version. I tried compiling it under TurboC, but it didn't detect the EOF 
properly (so much for C portability :-). After looking through the source code
a bit, I figured I could do it all with a few global change commands in a
standard editor.

DISCLAIMER: I did not get this file from chyde.uwasa.fi. It was either simtel
or grape or a local BBS. I'm also not the greatest C guru around (that's why
I wanted to translate to Pascal :-) so the EOF problem is probably an easy fix.

Oh well, That my $0.05  ($0.02 plus overhead)
-- 
Scott Bostater      GTRI/RAIL/RAD   (Ga. Tech)
"My soul finds rest in God alone; my salvation comes from Him"  -Ps 62.1
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