Re: Converting Pascal to C++, C# or VB

Marco van de Voort <marcov@stack.nl>
9 Apr 2006 16:56:56 -0400

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From: Marco van de Voort <marcov@stack.nl>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 9 Apr 2006 16:56:56 -0400
Organization: Stack Usenet News Service
References: 06-04-017 06-04-036
Keywords: Pascal, C, translator
Posted-Date: 09 Apr 2006 16:56:56 EDT

On 2006-04-08, John O'Harrow <john@elmcrest.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> Converting from Delphi Object Pascal to C# should be much easier than
> converting to C++. The Delphi and C# languages are very similar (Anders
> Hejlsberg, the lead C# architect at Microsoft was the main developer of
> Delphi in its early days).


I doubt it. While the high level aspects of the language are closer to C#,
the lower level aspects are closer to C/C++.


And in C/C++ it is easier to emulate the highlevel Pascal constructs than it
is in C# to emulate the lowerlevel features.


Keep in mind that Delphi allows e.g. pointer arithmetic, inline
assembler and pearls like overlaying a variant record over a calculated
pointer will be pretty hard to emulate in C#.

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