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From: verber@osu-eddie.UUCP (Mark Verber)
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Subject: Re: TeX in C?
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Date: Wed, 19-Nov-86 17:36:29 EST
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Norman Naugle at Texas A&M, and one of his students (Thomas Rekicki)
have translated the Pascal source into C.  They did in by writing a
very good Pascal to C translator.  The C code that the translator
produced can be compiled directly on  Vaxen and Suns.  CTeX runs twice
the speed of the standard UNIX distibution.

I am not sure what the status of the code is.  There was some talk
of turning CTeX into a commercial product, but I have heard anything
recently. It is quite speedy, especially after we profiled the code,
added a few register declairations, and got 40% speed improvement.


I also believe that some people at Case-Western have done the same thing
and are going to put the code in the public-domain.  They were planning
to give it to U of Washington to be distributed on the next UNIX TeX tape.

Cheers,
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