PL/1 -> C translation

[Garry Wiegand]

I have seen many requests for translaters going by recently, but I
think my variation is novel:

                Anyone out there doing **PL/1** to C??

I had to do a medium size conversion by hand last year. It took months
to get all the bugs out. Nowe have to do a LARGE one (shudder).

If I can't find such a translating program, there's a good chance we'll
build it ourselves. (It becomes an interesting exercise when you include
translations for nested procedures, label variables, non-local GOTOs,
conditional handlers, etc etc. YES, those can all be done in C. With
hair pulling. NO, I am NOT going to parse PL/1 macros.)

I'm directing followups to net.lang...

garry wiegand
garry at lasspvax.tn.cornell.edu