15 Dec
2020
15 Dec
'20
9:05 a.m.
On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 7:58 PM Bakul Shah <bakul(a)iitbombay.org> wrote:
On Dec 14, 2020, at 12:28 PM, Dave Horsfall
<dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
It's by far not the only program that's translated from a pascal-oid into C
before being compiled. The Moria game from back in the late 80s was
originally written in Pascal and ported to the PC by using a Pascal to C
compiler someone had written because it was easier than getting it to
compile under Turbo Pascal or something. Though that may have been a
one-shot deal. The code has since been rewritten two or three times...
Warner
You wrote your algorithm in Pascal, debugged it,
and then rewrote it in
your favourite language (in my case, ALGOL-W).
Now why didn't Don Knuth think of that for TeX?