[Info-vax] PL/1 on VMS

[Bob Koehler]

In article <aedec653-8dfa-4849-b3ca-f1afd3e7831b at c21g2000yqi.googlegroups.com>, kczwei <kaycee at kaycee.net> writes:
> 
> I would then need to learn BLISS.  For 12 years, I have had that on my
> to-do list because it would be interesting, but it has not made it to
> the top of my 'hobby' list and it's not enough of a business case with
> other tools and friendlier languages.

   I've looked at some transpilers, like f2c.  The generated code is not
   generally really human readable.  Mainteance by updating the original 
   code and retranspiling is typically prefered to trying to understand 
   or maintain the resulting code.

   These tools address needs where a compiler is available only in
   the second language, not where the user doesn't know the original
   language.

   I can't imagine automating BLISS to C and getting readly human read
   results.