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Ehud Lamm wrote:
>
> On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, Mark Evans wrote:
>
> >
> > I think G.P.'s comment about the expense of programmer hours also argues
> > in favor of getting a C port system working. It would enable commercial
> > programmers to get the same functional result in one-tenth the time. In
> > principle, the C code would be guaranteed accurate by virtue of its
> > automatic generation. One-tenth the time for more solid code is a
> > bargain in my book.
> >
>
> This will be true only if the generated C code will be human readable and
> mainainable. This is not usually the case with automatics generation.
>
> Ehud Lamm mslamm@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il
If you need to revise the code, you revise its Icon source and let the C
generator make the code anew. So human readability is not required in
the C, but only in the Icon.
As soon as you start talking about "maintaining" the C code, then you
may as well be talking about writing your functions in C to start with.
My idea is to write Icon code so I don't have to deal with C.
Mark