Re: [OT] Perl to C Converter?

From: Alan Connor (zzzzzz_at_xxx.yyy)
Date: 08/22/04 

Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 18:18:09 GMT

On 22 Aug 2004 09:50:52 -0700, nobull@mail.com <nobull@mail.com> wrote:
>
>
> "Profetas" <xuxu_18@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<e708e7c6fd4f986d7ec41043db3c7ef3@localhost.talkaboutprogramming.com>...
>> > Alan Connor wrote:
>> >>
>> >> There's this utility called html2ps that's written in perl, but
>> >> the box I want to run it on doesn't have room for perl. It does
>> >> have room for a C compiler.
>> >>
>> >> Be nice if I could find a tool that converted perl to C.
>> >
>> > The tool exists, its called "a programmer who knows perl and C".
>>
>> I have done some research on this topic and I couldn't find any
>
> LOL!

There are utilities for converting one programming language to another.

Lots of them. For major and minor languages.

(The very program I am referring to above, html2ps, is
such a program. HTML is a language understood by webbrowsers, and PS is
a language understood by printers.)

Why not this one?

Why couldn't that programmer that knows both languages sit down and
write a perl2C converter in C?

The answer is, of course, that they could.

Have they?

That's what I am trying to find out.

AC

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