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Subject: re: DeSmet C -> MicroSoft C
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Date: Wed, 1-Apr-87 00:38:00 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr  1 00:38:00 1987
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Nf-From: gorgo.UUCP!ddrex    Mar 31 23:38:00 1987



>Lately, I've come across some public domain C programs written in
>DeSmet C.  However, I don't have a DeSmet C compiler and I haven't
>found any switches in my Microsoft C compiler that will enable it
>to recognize the DeSmet C Syntax.  (If you're not familiar with this
>syntax, it seems to like to do away with { and }.  Using a $ for {
>and either indentation or blank lines to signal a }.  Also appears
>to use :: for ||.  What else I don't know.)
>
>Is there any easy way to translate DeSmet C source programs to
>the "regular" syntax?  Some public domain translator would be nice,
>I don't need source (esp. if it's in DeSmet C), just .EXE.
 
What you have doesn't sound like C, and definately isn't DeSmet. The
DeSmet compiler is totally K&R, and was a pretty decent one for its
time. I use it all the time because it compiles fast and it's handy.
 
Many programs written in it are not compat because the authors chose
to make heavy use of its idiosyncracies. A good example of that is the
RED editor. DeSmet allows the #asm; you can write lots of assembly
code in it without getting near an assembler. There are no standards
for functions which do direct screen writes, dos calls, or keyboard
reads; programs which use those features likewise are not terribly
portable, but then, they wouldn't be for any msdos compiler.
 
Other than those, it's entirely K&R, and I have compiled many programs
from net.sources using it.
 
David Drexler
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