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- From: grantp@usa.pipeline.com(Pete)
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- Subject: Re: <None>
- Date: 23 Feb 1996 11:15:08 GMT
- Organization: Kalevi, Inc.
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- On Feb 22, 1996 20:02:48 in article <Re: <None>>, '"Abe L. Getchell"
- <panther@iglou.com>' wrote:
-
-
- >You with all those curves and me with no brakes wrote:
- >>
- >> I have never programmed in C++ in my life, the nearest I have come to it
- is
- >> programming in C. Can someone tell me how hard it would be to convert a
- C++
- >> program into Pascal?
- >>
- >> Cheers
- >>
- >> Neil
- >
- > I have never programmed in Pascal in my life, but I have in
- >C++ to a limited degree. Since I do know that Pascal is not an OOP
- >, you would basically be doing what Bjarne Stroustrup did in '86
- >when he wrote the first C++ compiler. You could do it... but you
- >would have to know C++ backwards and forwards...
- >
- Right, standard Pascal is not OO, but extended Pascal -- e.g.,
- Borland's Delphi -- is.
-
- How hard would it be to convert? Depends on how well the converter
- knows both languagges and how "deeply" the existing system uses C++
- features. If the original poster, who claims to have no C++ knowledge,
- attempts the conversion, it'll be a long and tough road.
-
- --
- Pete Grant
- Kalevi, Inc.
- Software Engineering & development
-