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  7. To: icon-group@optima.CS.Arizona.EDU
  8. Date: Tue, 03 Feb 98 21:46:29 -0500
  9. From: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <bf8$s03c92f97$a93d2@kf8nh.apk.net>
  10. Message-Id: <34d7d7a3$14$ofn$mr2ice@speaker>
  11. Organization: Brandon's home server in Parma, Ohio
  12. Sender: icon-group-request@optima.CS.Arizona.EDU
  13. References: <6b3feg$ra$1@gte2.gte.net>
  14. Subject: Re: Icon to C Conversion
  15. Errors-To: icon-group-errors@optima.CS.Arizona.EDU
  16. Status: RO
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  18.  
  19. In <6b3feg$ra$1@gte2.gte.net>, on 02/02/98 at 03:41 AM,
  20.    evans.nospam@gte.net (MJE) said:
  21. +-----
  22. | Does there exist a program that converts an Icon-based parser into C code? 
  23. | I've written parsers in C but do not find the exercise very amusing.
  24. +--->8
  25.  
  26. Once upon a time, there was iconc --- it compiled Icon to C, then compiled
  27. that and linked against the Icon runtime library.  It worked well in the later
  28. v8 Icons, but is broken in v9; while it's still included in the v9
  29. distribution, it's unsupported.
  30.  
  31. -- 
  32. brandon s. allbery           [Team OS/2][Linux][JAPH]        bsa@void.apk.net
  33. cleveland, ohio              mr/2 ice's "rfc guru" :-)                  KF8NH
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