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From: garry@lasspvax.UUCP (Garry Wiegand)
Newsgroups: net.lang,net.lang.c
Subject: PL/1 -> C translation
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Date: Sat, 11-Jan-86 20:51:32 EST
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I have seen many requests for translaters going by recently, but I
think my variation is novel:

                Anyone out there doing **PL/1** to C??

I had to do a medium size conversion by hand last year. It took months
to get all the bugs out. Nowe have to do a LARGE one (shudder).

If I can't find such a translating program, there's a good chance we'll
build it ourselves. (It becomes an interesting exercise when you include
translations for nested procedures, label variables, non-local GOTOs,
conditional handlers, etc etc. YES, those can all be done in C. With
hair pulling. NO, I am NOT going to parse PL/1 macros.)

I'm directing followups to net.lang...

garry wiegand
garry@lasspvax.tn.cornell.edu