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Why make MB do it himself, wait for a Norton to produce the "whistles" for
the new Microsoft (hey that's suppose to be a compliment!)
At 10:38 AM 1999-06-22 -0400, Robin B. Lake wrote:
>Someone asked in a posting to Mark Brown:
>"and how would one convert an EL coded system to work with Traderware
>language? Would you provide a conversion facility?"
>===
>I'm not a Traderware nor an Omega user. I am a computer person.
>Here's the line of reasoning:
>EL is either compiled or interpreted. If it is compiled, there is,
>deep in the heart of EL, a "parser" that creates data structures from
>EL commands. Parsers are not hard to build, given a proper
>and complete description of the EL language. From the output of
>that parser, it is rather straightforward (junior level computer science)
>to build a code-generator to produce your favorite language's code ...
>VB seems to be called for here.
>If EL is interpreted, it can get a bit hairier. It's been 25 years
>since I hand-decoded an interpreted language from binary (DEC's FOCAL,
>in fact), but each and every command in an interpreted language
>typically calls subroutines and functions as the source code is read.
>A bit more of a problem to translate into a proper compiled language,
>but certainly do-able.
>Cheers,
>Rob Lake
>rbl@xxxxxxxxxxx
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