Modula-2 to Pascal Code Conversion

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4 total messages Started by Anders Kroksaeter Thu, 28 Mar 1996 13:02

#3429

Author: Anders Kroksaeter
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 13:02

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I have this Modula-2 DOS program, which I'm thinking of converting to 
Pascal, and then perhaps into Delphi.

Can anyone tell me if there is a Modula-2 to Pascal Code Converter 
around ?

Re: Modula-2 to Pascal Code Conversion

#3437

Author: Holger Jakobs
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 11:14

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Anders Kroksaeter (akro@veg.sintef.no) wrote:
: I have this Modula-2 DOS program, which I'm thinking of converting to 
: Pascal, and then perhaps into Delphi.

: Can anyone tell me if there is a Modula-2 to Pascal Code Converter 
: around ?

WHY? Why does anybody want to go back from a superior language to a
predecessor?

Actually, it won't work if you have any code in it that uses features
that are only available in Modula-2.

I am afraid you will have to rewrite most of it manually.

Holger   ja@bg.bib.de

Re: Modula-2 to Pascal Code Conversion

#3459

Author: granville
Date: Sun, 07 Apr 1996 02:53

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In article <4jgglp$1td@ux-01.bg.bib.de>, dozja@ux-01.bg.bib.de (Holger Jakobs) writes:
> Anders Kroksaeter (akro@veg.sintef.no) wrote:
> : I have this Modula-2 DOS program, which I'm thinking of converting to 
> : Pascal, and then perhaps into Delphi.
> 
> : Can anyone tell me if there is a Modula-2 to Pascal Code Converter 
> : around ?
> 
> WHY? Why does anybody want to go back from a superior language to a
> predecessor?
> 
> Actually, it won't work if you have any code in it that uses features
> that are only available in Modula-2.
> 
> I am afraid you will have to rewrite most of it manually.
> 
> Holger   ja@bg.bib.de
  Real soon now... we are promised Modula-2 'delphi's from TopSpeed and
Stony Brook. ( well, not exactly delphi clone, but windows friendly at least )
 Betas of both have been kicking about for appx 6 months - that may be one
solution.

 We have written a Pascal -> Modula-2 translator, for our Mod51 cross compiler.
( no plans to go the other way.... )
 However, for M2 -> Borland Pascal v7, they have many m2 style extensions,
though are still a m2 subset.
 I would suggest you write a simple 'begin' inserter/translator for starters,
then focus on doing PASCAL versions of the m2 libraries.
 If you use BITSET, LOOP, ARRAY OF CHAR a lot, it will not be easy....
BP7 does have a C style Char Pointer, for dealing with null terminated
strings.
 Another option would be to place the M2 stuff into a DLL, and put a 
Delphi shell around it ( it depends on your requirements... ).
 - jim granville.



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Re: Modula-2 to Pascal Code Conversion

#3457

Author: Pat Terry
Date: Sun, 07 Apr 1996 15:48

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>> : I have this Modula-2 DOS program, which I'm thinking of converting to 
>> : Pascal, and then perhaps into Delphi.
>> 
>> : Can anyone tell me if there is a Modula-2 to Pascal Code Converter 
>> : around ?

I knocked up a Coco/R application that does about 85% of the job for you 
for PIM Modula-2 to Turbo Pascal.  Let me know if you're interested and I'll 
dig it out for you.

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