Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!texbell!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (peter da silva) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Personal dialects and C++ overloading Message-ID: Date: 7 Feb 90 18:36:20 GMT References: <5940014@hpcupt1.HP.COM> <1990Feb6.174139.21140@maths.nott.ac.uk> Organization: Ferranti International Controls Corporation Lines: 13 In article <1990Feb6.174139.21140@maths.nott.ac.uk>, anw@maths.nott.ac.uk (Dr A. N. Walker) writes: > Those who are complaining loudest about Bournegol might like > to think about what they will do if they ever find themselves with lots > of C source on a computer with no C compiler, but with, say, Fortran > available. Buy a copy of "Software Tools", and try to get a few programs running under Ratfor. After a certain amount of blasphemy, settle down to rewrite the whole kit and kaboodle from scratch. As you later point out, C and Algool are pretty close. Certainly a lot closer than Fortran and C: > But C *is* a weird, perverted Algol-like beast! [:-)] -- _--_|\ Peter da Silva. +1 713 274 5180. . / \ \_.--._/ Xenix Support -- it's not just a job, it's an adventure! v "Have you hugged your wolf today?" `-_-'