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From: daveb@gonzo.UUCP (Dave Brower)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: PLM to C translator
Summary: Sure you want to?
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Date: 28 Oct 88 04:37:19 GMT
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In article <221@taux02.UUCP> yuval@taux02.UUCP (Gideon Yuval) writes:
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>Microprocessor Services, Inc., 516-499-4461 advertises such a thing. 
>$500 or so (PL/M can be -80,-51 or -86). That's all I know.

I attended a talk at the West Coast Computer Faire in maybe 1984 about
the expeiriences some people at Zilog had porting CP/M to the Z8000.
Most of the CP/M utilitites were written in PL/M, and they needed to be
translated to C.  The question was whether to write a translator
program, or do it by hand.  They decided to do it by hand, because they
felt a literal translation wouldn't catch intent very well.  Since it
would need to be checked line by line anyway, they thought doing it by
hand with the help of sed was a better idea.

Of course, for 500 shekels, if it saves you a few days on hand
translating by working better than sed, you are still ahead.

Your mileage may vary.

-dB