[M3devel] A question about the M3 licensing...

[hendrik at topoi.pooq.com]

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 09:32:31AM +0000, Jay K wrote:
> 
> It's surprising how similar Ada looks to Modula-3..

I think they both dated from the same era, and both are ultimately based 
on Pascal syntax.

> I've looked into llvm but haven't really got my head around it and/or 
> the cm3 intermediate representation.

Do you mean the internal parse tree?

> If I could get my head around the 
> latter I'd really like to try to translate that into C, for better and 
> worse.

Didn't there use to be a translator from Modula 3 to C before people 
gave up on C as not being a good object code language?  Wouldn't it 
still be lurking in anckent CVS branches somewhere?

-- hendrik