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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Mixed language programs
Message-ID: <2215@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 26 Feb 88 23:47:03 GMT
References: <11216@brl-adm.ARPA> <2111@chinet.UUCP> <4403@garfield.UUCP> <2727@mmintl.UUCP> <687@l.cc.purdue.edu>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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In article <687@l.cc.purdue.edu> cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
>Telling me that what I want to do in part of my code can be done in
>FORTRAN, another part in PASCAL, another part in ..., where each part
>is a small number of lines, is stupid.  I do not know of any way to 
>combine anything smaller than subroutines from different compilations...

We have strayed from our punched-card heritage, which gives us all the
solutions we need.  Mixing languages is trivial if we simply go back to
our roots, and use columns 78-80 of each card to specify which language
to compile code in.

//EXEC DD *                                                      JCL
     if i < 10 then                                              PAS
	{                                                          C
	   while (--i < (int) *++a[--j+xyz->++q])                  C
	     PERFORM ADD_ONE_TO_INPUT_RECORD                     COB
	     SAY @40 "ENTER TWO NUMBERS"                         DB3
	     DO 10 J = I, 2, 100                                 FOR
		exception when INPUT_ERROR =>                    ADA
		   perror ("input");                               C
		end                                              ADA
10           CONTINUE	                                         FOR
	 }                                                         C
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi