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Article #3474Re: A question about WEB and bibtex
From: ken
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1987 07:31
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1987 07:31
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Yes, of course what you suggest is possible. I remember a Software Practice and Experience paper on CONVERT, a program for automatic conversion of language dialects. I once had to do an automatic converter for COBOL (shudder) with sed scripts. (It's always the last 5% that's hard - COBOL can have uninitialized variable and record alignment problems too!) Knuth has been criticized for picking Pascal for TeX. In retrospect his choice is not as bad as it seems. There were no C compilers for the DEC-20 then. Also Pascal has spread TeX to many operating systems. As Pat Monardo has demonstrated, once the algorithm is right, mechanical translation into a decent language like C is not a problem. Tangle was only meant to relieve some of the shorcomings of standard Pascal. It won't bear too much stretching beyond its original charter. Ken
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbatt!gatech!lll-lcc!seismo!rochester!ken From: ken@rochester.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: A question about WEB and bibtex Message-ID: <24957@rochester.ARPA> Date: Wed, 18-Feb-87 02:31:05 EST Article-I.D.: rocheste.24957 Posted: Wed Feb 18 02:31:05 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 19-Feb-87 06:48:18 EST References: <1605@utastro.UUCP> <60400006@umn-cs.UUCP> Reply-To: ken@rochester.UUCP (SKY) Organization: U of Rochester, CS Dept, Rochester, NY Lines: 18 Summary: sure, but is it worth the trouble?