On Feb 21, 2021, at 9:14 AM, Sebastien Binet <s...@sbinet.org> wrote: > > On Sun Feb 21, 2021 at 17:46 CET, Patrick wrote: >> Hi Sebastien, >> >> that was a manual translation of the web file. >> My plan was to do more than that, ... TeX is such a beast. > > yeah... "how hard would it be to translate ~20k lines of C/C++ code (or > 6k lines of obfuscated Pascal code) into a set of nicely structured Go > packages" ? :)
Aren't you supposed to read Knuth's TeX: The Program book instead of the 6k lines of Pascal?! Also, I don't understand why anyone would want to do that. > > my initial strategy to have something working in a mixture of Go and > C/C++ (I am in the middle of getting rid of the C++ part), is OK to get > some PDFs out of the gate, but I think I need to invest in the tooling > to do the automatic web->Go translation. (either web->Pascal->Go or > web->C->Go.) Doesn't web2c directly translate the web sources to C? > tex.web doesn't change too much nor too often, but 3.141592653 was just > "released" after I had started my C/C++->Go migration (bummer), so it > does happen. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/B8226003-585A-454C-8712-E150FB3D04DF%40iitbombay.org.
