From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2006-10-02T22:29:32+09:00
Subject: Re: "Succinctness is Power", by Paul Graham

Tim Smith wrote:
> In article <29577979-9E2C-4C38-A7D6-14670ADE42D9@gmail.com>,
>  Martin Coxall <pseudo.meta@gmail.com> wrote:
>> The K&R C specification is tiny. I wouldn't want to write a parser  
>> for a language spec of the magnitude of C++ or Perl 6 in C.
>>
>> Others would though, and those people are bonkers.
> 
> I've heard rumors of a Fortran compiler written in troff macros.  Now 
> *that* is bonkers...
> 

I hadn't heard that one. However, "f2c" and "p2c" (FORTRAN to C and
Pascal to C translators) were quite popular at one time before the good
GNUs started to spread. :)