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From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: HELP:  Pascal -=> C
Summary: Defines help
Message-ID: <1990Jan16.133841.2207@cs.dal.ca>
Date: 16 Jan 90 13:38:41 GMT
References: <449@ns-mx.uiowa.edu>
Sender: silvert@cs.dal.ca.UUCP (Bill Silvert)
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Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
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In article <449@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> eahill@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Edward Hill) writes:
>   I am currently trying to port a program to a NeXT.  This is a very very
>   large program and I have the source code written in Pascal.  To make 
>   my life a lot easier, I am looking for a program that will translate
>   Pascal code to C code ( crude I understand ).  

The syntax of C and Pascal are close enough so that by the proper use of
defines one can compile a lot of Pascal code with a C compiler (for
example, #define begin { and #define end }).  I haven't done this, but
when the Atari ST was new a lot of Atari magazines carried C code that
looked for all the world like Pascal, and some of the tricks they used
were really clever, as well as portable.

Of course a similar approach would be to use sed or m4 to translate
keywords -- I think I have seen a sed script for Modula-2 to C, but
don't know if I can still find it.


-- 
Bill Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division.
Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada B2Y 4A2
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