Posted by
Nicholas J Gimbrone (Whatever Is Right-Do It) on
URL: http://ibm-netrexx.48.s1.nabble.com/Flexibilty-tp678101p678105.html
> What computer languages out there (excluding 4GL's) has the
>ability to program in one and produce another. I can not think of any.
Actually, this is a common (well, at least "not uncommon" ;-)
technique. If you think about it, isn't this what most compilers do
(we program in C and it generates a machine language for any of a
number of machines, that machine language is then interpreted by the
local micro code). In the late 70s I worked on a FORTRAN compiler
(written in FORTRAN no less) that produced as output the program
expressed in another language which was then ran through that other
language's translator to produce the executable object deck... in that
case it was for a special purpose piece of hardware, but the concept is
still the same (and it wasn't all that new then either ;-).
Personally, this is one of the things I like about NetRexx...
using well proven techniques to solve today's problems. :-) -njg
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