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Off-Topic Discussion => Programming => Topic started by: jr2 on February 04, 2010, 02:59:46 pm

Title: Interesting tool
Post by: jr2 on February 04, 2010, 02:59:46 pm
What do you coder-gods make of this?  I guess FS is coded in C..
Source Code (http://www.cdecl.org/files/cdecl-blocks-2.5.tar.gz) is available.

cdecl (http://www.cdecl.org/)

e.g.:
cdecl
C gibberish ↔ English

int (*(*foo)(const void *))[3]

declare foo as pointer to function (pointer to const void) returning pointer to array 3 of int
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Title: Re: Interesting tool
Post by: Colonol Dekker on February 04, 2010, 03:19:52 pm
I have nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo idea what this topic is about.

/me clicks download anyway :nod:
Title: Re: Interesting tool
Post by: The E on February 04, 2010, 03:48:53 pm
Looks a bit useless, to be honest. Either you can read and understand the code, or you can't. In cases of obfuscated C, it may be of some use, but anyone who codes that way deserves to be hunted by Raptors.
Title: Re: Interesting tool
Post by: jr2 on February 04, 2010, 04:22:37 pm
Looks a bit useless, to be honest. Either you can read and understand the code, or you can't. In cases of obfuscated C, it may be of some use, but anyone who codes that way deserves to be hunted by Raptors.

:lol: Well I have no clue anyways so I thought I'd see if it was useful.  ;)
Title: Re: Interesting tool
Post by: Tomo on February 05, 2010, 06:53:15 am
It's a bit of fun, and completely useless.

Therefore, I applaud it - useless fun is fun!
- But still useless.

(On the other hand, "All art is useless" - Oscar Wilde)
Title: Re: Interesting tool
Post by: Bobboau on February 05, 2010, 12:40:28 pm
for those of you wondering what this is it's a C -> English converter.
Title: Re: Interesting tool
Post by: Flipside on February 06, 2010, 10:11:19 am
Problem with things like this is that it's kind of like all other language translators, C is a language, like French or Japanese, it has rules and idiosyncracies that may not translate well to English. When someone speaks Spanish, for example, they'll do a far better job if they think in Spanish while they do it, the same applies to programming languages in my opinion.
Title: Re: Interesting tool
Post by: jr2 on February 07, 2010, 06:48:15 pm
for those of you wondering what this is it's a C -> English converter.

I was under the impression it did both?   C  <->  English

Am I mistaken?
Title: Re: Interesting tool
Post by: Bobboau on February 09, 2010, 11:23:16 am
probably an extremely particular form of English.