Personal dialects and C++ overloading

peter da silva peter at ficc.uu.net
Thu Feb 8 05:36:20 AEST 1990


In article <1990Feb6.174139.21140 at maths.nott.ac.uk>, anw at maths.nott.ac.uk (Dr A. N. Walker) writes:
> 	Those who are complaining loudest about Bournegol might like
> to think about what they will do if they ever find themselves with lots
> of C source on a computer with no C compiler, but with, say, Fortran
> available.

Buy a copy of "Software Tools", and try to get a few programs running
under Ratfor. After a certain amount of blasphemy, settle down to
rewrite the whole kit and kaboodle from scratch. As you later point out,
C and Algool are pretty close. Certainly a lot closer than Fortran
and C:

> 	But C *is* a weird, perverted Algol-like beast! [:-)]
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