From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PhXWw-00032m-1y for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 01:17:10 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2507FE0A45; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 01:15:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC7EBE0A45 for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 01:15:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyf22 with SMTP id 22so6375524wyf.40 for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 17:15:31 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=VbSZ9qnxmWWblKKzNMQ9lZF0AYuoboiuCJErtNNTWs0=; b=eONUX4S7hj02QaKx67klWqYTDhvs5ftL0gmXXdcjQMF+iQpZy7WjzklrN/qKGiCNoq OuhO2KpdpTW+Zjkdc/3V1iBz74K+f8Waowjbq78Bf+fQYldJByx9dBot/fsHhxc/DBDo PMzi+NFhVp3DSkNtfXyS8D5hmWiyBltkfxkXY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=djAuYNT0z/uuSABIejHMd6Cev4YWIogKLLnZYxp/G2dxhOdWDdu0F4PUkpX+DGgyZ9 o7Q0U3rT5pAdkYdJjtggsnEGy5TtF1yg8EENL9zHtCIeLn8zJ9+FaZQ8TaEVPPfZo55i G4PAo0fDrQGH49omQv8/MgoJ8tdbgZxp43EGg= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.0.140 with SMTP id 12mr4403417web.29.1295918130892; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 17:15:30 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.216.16.21 with HTTP; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 17:15:30 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 17:15:30 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] - Code translation tools? From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: e2e829019594b355eb1a9f7c70cd13c8 On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 4:35 PM, walt wrote: > On 01/24/2011 02:34 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> Hello, >> =C2=A0 =C2=A0I'm wondering if there are any generic sorts of code transl= ation >> tools in portage wherein I could translate from an 'uncommon' language >> no one here is likely to use (EasyLanguage) into C? >> >> =C2=A0 =C2=A0As an example I've attached a little EL function... > > Can't give you a real answer, but that code looks very much like Pascal. > Reminds me of a misspent youth. > In 1983 I certainly wasn't a turbo user of Turbo Pascal either... ;-) > Is there a definite reason for choosing C instead of something else, e.g. > python? =C2=A0Just idle curiosity, nothing more. > I'm interested in learning a bit about CUDA as an evaluation platform and the tools from NVidia are based around C. (As best I understand.) > If I knew a wee bit more about m4 I'm sure I could do it with that alone. > But I'd need to do actual work to learn m4, which is not likely to happen= ... > Thanks! - Mark