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- From: tottinge@csci.csc.com (Tim Ottinger)
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- Subject: Re: Portability of code & skills (Beware of "C" Hackers etc)
- Date: Mon, 18 Mar 96 14:36:04 GMT
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- > However, if C really is as portable as some seem to be saying, then it
- > can be used as a universal assembler language enabling other systems to
- > be portable. This does not seem to have happened, and I don't understand
- > why.
- >
- >But it has. CFront generates C. Eiffel compilers generate C. Many
- >Pascal and Fortran compilers are written in C and generate C.
- >
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- Likewise there are a number of RDBMs 4GLs which generate C code.
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