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From: djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: ANSI <--> K&R conversion utilities - COMMING SOON
Message-ID: <5472@goofy.megatest.UUCP>
Date: 1 Jun 89 23:37:31 GMT
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> In article <229@pink.ACA.MCC.COM> rfg@pink.aca.mcc.com.UUCP (Ron Guilmette) writes:
> 
>>Who wants to go backwards?
> 

It's the implied concept of backwards and forwards is backwards.

Assuming that you like ANSII-C better than C, one wants an (ANSII-C)-to-C compiler
so that one can make the "forward" step to writing in ANSII-C rather than in C.

There are lots of C compilers around. If we had just one ANSII-C to C compiler,
we would then have lots of ANSII-C-to-machine-code compilers.  I could use
an ANSII-C-to-C compiler.

It's the same reason that cfront compiles C++ into C.