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  9. From: Mark Evans <evans@gte.net>
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  15. Subject: Re: Translation into C
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  23. This would certainly be very sweet, but would not a C++ generator give
  24. it to you, along with a zillion other possible applications for Icon
  25. code?
  26.  
  27. Icon source  -->  Generator  --->   C++   -->  \
  28.                                                  --> link --> run
  29. Oracle  -->  C++-based accessor objects   -->  /
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  33. ____________________________________
  34. Chris Tenaglia wrote:
  35. > 
  36. > I'd like to second the notion/motion that database extensions
  37. > would be far more useful than C or C++ code generation
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