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From: daveh@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Pascal-to-C translator
Message-ID: <63@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 10-Apr-86 11:22:22 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 10 11:22:22 1986
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Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
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In '82 I was working for the Carnegie-Mellon Electrical Engineering 
Department on a project that involved translating gobs of Berkley PASCAL
into C.  They had a program developed somewhere at CMU that did a degree
of PASCAL to C translation.  As I recall its largest problem was that
it couldn't resolve the several levels of nested WITH constructs that
our PASCAL code had.  It wasn't a full translator, and I guess from the
WITH problem it had that it was basically just re-arranging text from
PASCAL to C style, it didn't keep a symbol table of PASCAL types which
would have let it resolve some of the tougher things.  But if it DID
that I wouldn't have had much of a job.  Anyway, you could probably
contact someone at CMU through this net -- I don't know how they'd
feel about distributing the program (ran on a VAX under UNIX), but it
couldn't hurt to ask.
-- 

Dave Haynie    {inhp4,allegra,seismo}!cbmvax!daveh
               "When the going gets tough, the weird turn pro"