Paul on Fri, 15 Mar 2019 19:19:52 -0400 typed
in alt.windows7.general the following:
*I started to port the code to C, instead of doing _that_ classwrok,
but I don't have that source code at all. Maybe on a 5 1/4 floppy,
somewhere. In a box marked Mag Media.
There's probably more than one P2C out there.
This page hints at some of the "translation" problems.
http://www.garret.ru/ptoc/Readme.htm
Pascal is tightly typed, while C is not.
C is like assembler, wearing a dress.
Pascal will cure you of a lot of bad habits,
whereas C encourages those bad habits.
I had a neat little C program which would clean up text files by
just not passing anything which wasn't in the printable ASCII range. I
think I had it doing arithmetic with character variables.
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pyotr filipivich
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