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Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 22:15:41 +0300 (MEST)
From: Ehud Lamm <mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il>
To: Mark Evans <evans@gte.net>
Cc: icon-group@optima.CS.Arizona.EDU
Subject: Re: Translation into C
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On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Mark Evans wrote:
> 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.
> >
>
> 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.
>
This is true. I just thought you talked about to cases:
1. Using the tranlation inorder to mixed Icon work in a C project
2. Code in Icon as a shortcut to coding in C (which implies the basic
idea is to procdue normal C code).
I was reffering to the second option.
Of course if you are happy with one language, there is no need to use
another...
Ehud Lamm mslamm@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il