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Re: Apple II/IIGS C++ compiler
- Subject: Re: Apple II/IIGS C++ compiler
- From: pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)
- Date: 19 Nov 2001 08:45:54 +0100
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: Svensk Amat|rAstronomisk F|rening (SAAF)
- References: <9t6r0e$nsdc$1@ID-118921.news.dfncis.de> <9t7l54$mac$1@nserve1.acs.ucalgary.ca> <9t8lcd$5f3$1@merope.saaf.se> <3bf7fff9@news.svn.net>
- Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.sys.apple2:15105
In article <3bf7fff9@news.svn.net>, Paul Grammens <grammens@svn.net> wrote:
> Paul Schlyter <pausch@saaf.se> wrote
>> And then you can run AT&T's Cfront, which converts C++ to C. Yep,
>> that's the way early C++ compilers worked: they compiled C++ into
>> (quite unreadable, but compliable) C
>
> Isn't all C unreadable? ;-)
> -Paul
Perhaps you think so, but I suggest you take a good look at some
source code written in LISP or APL -- after that you'll find C quite
readable.... (if you survive the shock, that is ;-)
If C was inherently unreadable, as you suggest, then there would be
no market for products like C-shroud, which takes C source and
transforms it into really unreadable, but still cimpilable, form.
And there would also be no point in keeping the C Obfuscated Contest.
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