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  9. Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 09:51:49 -0600
  10. From: Charles Hethcoat <CHETHCOA@oss.oceaneering.com>
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  20. > Does anyone know of a language implementation where the resulting
  21. code is
  22. machine-generated C code that is maintainable by humans?  If so, is the
  23. compiler free and is the language general-purpose? 
  24.  
  25. Ratfor -> Fortran 66.  Ratfor was semantic sugar for Fortran.  It was free, but
  26. Fortran compilers generally weren't.  They always were locally installed,
  27. though.
  28.  
  29. I'm not intending to be purely facetious here.  The point is that even this
  30. simple setup generated pretty ugly Fortran that nobody would want to
  31. maintain directly--and the semantic distance between R4 and Fortran was
  32. nil.
  33.  
  34. Charles L Hethcoat III        
  35. Senior Engineer, Analysis Department
  36. Oceaneering Space Systems, Inc.
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  38. Voice:  281-488-9080 Ext. 3470;        Fax:  281-488-2027
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