Pascal to C (and vice versa)

[Norman Diamond]

In article <6684 at ficc.uu.net> peter at ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:

>it's a quality-of-implementation consideration
>This is a different order of magnitude than only allowing one function-like
>macro. A Pascal that does not allow !set of char! is atill quite usable.
>For what it's worth, I've never seen !set of char! used in a Pascal program,
>out of the old Berkeley pi/px compiler, UCSD, a couple of micro cross-
>compilers, and Turbo (which is to Pascal as Ratfor is to Fortran-77). I
>know that at least one of the micro systems didn't allow it (probably both,
>they were from the same vendor), and neither did UCSD.

The days when micro Pascal compilers didn't support SET OF CHAR were
before the days when micro C compilers didn't support float.  Sure, a
C compiler that didn't support float was still quite usable.

However, as a quality of implementation issue, any compiler that does
not support SET OF CHAR has as few sales as any compiler that does not
support two function-like macros, and their respective standards
committees are not going to come to the defense of either of them.

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