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<nod> thanks, yeah I was actually a student at UCF where some OCCC winners were instructors (David Van Brackle and Mark Schnitzius, if memory serves).

And, I actually used `cfront` in my first job, and used the parameter to see the C it spit out as a way to learn how C++ did some things. Pretty interesting, if, as you say, nearly unreadable to humans!




i'd just like to point out that cfront was not a preprocessor - it was what today would be called a transpiler - it compiled c++ code into c.


Sure, I tangented off parent's post.




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