On Dec 14, 2020, at 12:28 PM, Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> wrote:
> You wrote your algorithm in Pascal, debugged it, and then rewrote it in your favourite language (in my case, ALGOL-W).
Now why didn't Don Knuth think of that for TeX?
It's by far not the only program that's translated from a pascal-oid into C before being compiled. The Moria game from back in the late 80s was originally written in Pascal and ported to the PC by using a Pascal to C compiler someone had written because it was easier than getting it to compile under Turbo Pascal or something. Though that may have been a one-shot deal. The code has since been rewritten two or three times...
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