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Subject: Re: transpiling to low level C
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2024 21:32:11 +0000
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On 15/12/2024 19:08, Bonita Montero wrote:
> C++ is more readable because is is magnitudes more expressive than C.
> You can easily write a C++-statement that would hunddres of lines in
> C (imagines specializing a unordered_map by hand). Making a language
> less expressive makes it even less readable, and that's also true for
> your reduced C.
> 

That's not really the point of it. This reduced C is used as an 
intermediate language for a compiler target. It will not usually be 
read, or maintained.

An intermediate language needs to at a lower level than the source language.

And for this project, it needs to be compilable by any C89 compiler.

Generating C++ would be quite useless.