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From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Mixed language programs
Message-ID: <2739@mmintl.UUCP>
Date: 1 Mar 88 00:01:27 GMT
References: <11216@brl-adm.ARPA> <2111@chinet.UUCP> <4403@garfield.UUCP> <2727@mmintl.UUCP> <687@l.cc.purdue.edu> <2215@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Organization: Multimate International, E. Hartford, CT.
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In article <2215@bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>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
>...

Nonsense!  Modern methods are quite adequate to the task:

#language JCL
//EXEC DD *
#language Pascal
     if i < 10 then
#language C
	{
...

	Never believe them when they tell you about the good old days.
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