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From: swh@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Steve Harrold)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: CTYPE (English-to-C converter) wanted
Message-ID: <-286629989@hpcupt1.HP.COM>
Date: 18 Jul 90 16:13:12 GMT
References: <1766@sud509.ed.ray.com>
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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>>> Remember CTYPE?  It was a public-domain program (apparently quite old by the
>>> time I first saw it in 1985) which served as an English-to-C (and back again
>>> translator.  You could type something like
>>> 
>>> declare foo as array 4 of pointer to function returning int
>>> 
>>> and it would reply
>>> 
>>> int (*foo[4])();

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Look for this program under the name CDECL.  It has been posted on the net
recently (i.e. last 6 months), but I don't remember which group (comp.lang.c 
sounds like a good bet)