Re: eonhs (Also,)
"Karp, Alan H" <[email protected]>
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Nathan wrote: > > An automated translator could take an input file in the > source language, L, and generate the target language, JS, and a > translation map, M. The map would define which character offsets in > JS map to which in L. JS should uniquely refer to (L, M) (such as by > cryptographic hash) as well as enable their retrieval (such as by > URL). This would be in a comment in the target file, JS, to be > backwards compatible with non-aware debuggers. > This approach was used in the late 1970s and early 1980s for various Fortran translators, such as RatFor. You won't be able to use any of their code, but you might learn from their experiences. Unfortunately, I don't have a pointer. ________________________ Alan Karp Principal Scientist Virus Safe Computing Initiative Hewlett-Packard Laboratories 1501 Page Mill Road Palo Alto, CA 94304 (650) 857-3967, fax (650) 857-7029 http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Alan_Karp