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On Fri, 2014-04-11 at 07:21 +0200, Bert Timmerman wrote:
> I think the thing of value here is the algorithms not the code. Would
> > it not be better if someone translated it into C?
> >    
> Exactly my plan.
> 
> Now too find some spare cycles ...

In some of his last postings Anthony was talking about porting his C
code to a more advanced language, I think he mentioned something more
functional lisp or scheme like -- he said he used C just because PCB was
coded in C.

When men-power or brain-power is limited, C is not always the best
solution. And porting from an object-orientated language like Java to
plain C can be difficult. The primary question is, if someone other than
Alfons itself can understand his code at all (in reasonable time).

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