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Re: Question re. FSF GNU SmallEiffel vs. C and C++
On Oct 17, 2000, mike corbeil ordinary user account <mcorbeil@NetRevolution.com> wrote:
> the SmallEiffel compiler translates the code to or into C, followed
> (obv.) by compiling the C code. This seems tentatively or possibly
> okay, or even good, if it avoids problems people have with C++, and
> C; however, this also means that SmallEiffel is more of a macro
> language than a real one, albeit modelled after or based on the
> Eiffel language.
This is not unlike the first implementation of C++, that was also a
translator from C++ to C. Given enough time and interest, people may
eventually write a front-end for GCC, that may allow more higher-level
information about the source program to be exposed to the compiler,
providing for language-specific optimizations.
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