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Johnny Eriksson (bygg@sunet.se)
Tue, 28 Jul 1998 22:58:17 MET DST
Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk> wrote:
> > Like pseudocode, you mean?
>
> Hmmm ... suppose I were to write a program that took C and converted it
> to an English explanation of the C. Would the resulting explanation be
> exportable? As I understand it, it would, wouldn't it?
>
> Suppose the transformation just happened to be reversible...
>
> int f(int a,int b)
> {
> return a+b;
> }
>
> ...
>
> In order to calculate the function f, which returns an int, and takes
> two arguments a, an int, and b, an int, return the result of adding a to
> b.
Congratulations. You have just reinvented COBOL...
> Ben.
--Johnny
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