Newsgroup: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: An Objective-C to C++ Translator
From: lipingyang2010@...
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 16:01:56 -0700 (PDT)
On Thursday, July 28, 1988 11:19:01 AM UTC-7, Jim Adcock wrote:
> I have an Objective-C to C++ "translation aid" that I'm willing to make
> available on an "unsupported public domain" basis to strongly motivated
> users.
>
> The translator reduces by maybe a factor of 10X the amount of time
> required to translate software from Objective-C to C++.
>
> Unlike some language translators, this one chooses not to do a flawless
> job of translating, but rather emphasizes not messing up the original
> naming conventions, indentations, and commenting schemes. This leaves
> some final manual clean up work to the user. On the positive side, the
> resulting code looks like real code, not some kind of gibberish.
>
> The potential user should have a fair chunk of code that needs to be
> translated -- say more than 10 classes, should be quite knowledgable in
> C++ and Objective-C, and should have some idea of the difficulties and
> limitations involved in language translation. The translator is implemented
> in K+R C code which should be relatively portable, but may take a day
> or two's work to get running on a new machine. Finally, the potential user
> should realize that using the translator is not going to be a very useful
> way to compare the relative merits of Objective-C and C++.
>
> This tool is not flawless, but has proven to be useful to some people.
That's what I am looking for. Can you share it?
thanks,
Subject: Re: An Objective-C to C++ Translator
From: lipingyang2010@...
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 16:01:56 -0700 (PDT)
On Thursday, July 28, 1988 11:19:01 AM UTC-7, Jim Adcock wrote:
> I have an Objective-C to C++ "translation aid" that I'm willing to make
> available on an "unsupported public domain" basis to strongly motivated
> users.
>
> The translator reduces by maybe a factor of 10X the amount of time
> required to translate software from Objective-C to C++.
>
> Unlike some language translators, this one chooses not to do a flawless
> job of translating, but rather emphasizes not messing up the original
> naming conventions, indentations, and commenting schemes. This leaves
> some final manual clean up work to the user. On the positive side, the
> resulting code looks like real code, not some kind of gibberish.
>
> The potential user should have a fair chunk of code that needs to be
> translated -- say more than 10 classes, should be quite knowledgable in
> C++ and Objective-C, and should have some idea of the difficulties and
> limitations involved in language translation. The translator is implemented
> in K+R C code which should be relatively portable, but may take a day
> or two's work to get running on a new machine. Finally, the potential user
> should realize that using the translator is not going to be a very useful
> way to compare the relative merits of Objective-C and C++.
>
> This tool is not flawless, but has proven to be useful to some people.
That's what I am looking for. Can you share it?
thanks,
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