The equipment control (EC) software of the GSI accelerators has been written entirely in Pascal. Modern software development is based on C++ or Java. To be prepared for the future, we decided to convert the EC software from Pascal to C in a first step. Considering the large amount of software, this is done automatically as far as possible. The paper describes our experiences gained using a Pascal to C translator, Perl scripts, and, of course, some manual interaction.
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@article{arxiv.physics/0111056,
title = {Converting Equipment Control Software from Pascal to C/C++},
author = {Ludwig Hechler},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0111056},
year = {2007}
}