2.9BSD/usr/doc/v7summary/hel2

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Languages
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The C Language
.LP
.sh CC
Compile and/or link edit programs in the C
language.
The 
.UC UNIX
operating system, most of the
subsystems and C itself are written in C.
For a full description of C, read
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The C Programming Language,
Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie,
Prentice-Hall, 1978.
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General purpose language
designed for structured programming.
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Data types include
character,
integer,
float,
double,
pointers to all types,
functions returning above types,
arrays of all types,
structures and unions of all types.
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Operations intended to give machine-independent control
of full machine facility, including to-memory
operations and
pointer arithmetic.
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Macro preprocessor for parameterized code and inclusion of
standard files.
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All procedures recursive, with parameters by value.
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Machine-independent pointer manipulation.
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Object code uses full
addressing capability of the PDP-11.
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Runtime library gives access to all system facilities.
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Definable data types.
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Block structure
.sh  LINT
Verifier for C programs.
Reports questionable or nonportable usage such as:
.nf
.in +2
Mismatched data declarations and procedure interfaces.
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Nonportable type conversions.
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Unused variables, unreachable code, no-effect operations.
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Mistyped pointers.
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Obsolete syntax.
.in -2
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Full cross-module checking of separately compiled programs.
.sh CB
A beautifier for C programs.
Does proper indentation and placement of braces.
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Fortran
.LP
.sh  F77
A full compiler for 
ANSI Standard Fortran 77.
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Compatible with C and supporting tools at object level.
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Optional source compatibility with Fortran 66.
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Free format source.
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Optional subscript-range checking, detection of uninitialized variables.
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All widths of arithmetic:
2- and 4-byte integer; 4- and 8-byte real; 8- and 16-byte
complex.
.sh RATFOR
Ratfor adds rational
control structure \o'a\(ga' la C to Fortran.
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Compound statements.
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If-else, do, for, while,
repeat-until, break, next
statements.
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Symbolic constants.
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File insertion.
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Free format source
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Translation of relationals like >, >=.
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Produces genuine Fortran to carry away.
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May be used with F77.
.sh STRUCT
Converts ordinary ugly Fortran into structured Fortran (i.e., Ratfor),
using statement grouping, if-else, while, for, repeat-until.
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Other Algorithmic Languages
.LP
.sh BAS
An interactive interpreter, similar in style to BASIC.
Interpret unnumbered statements immediately,
numbered statements upon `run'.
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Statements include:
.in+2
.nf
comment,
dump,
for...next,
goto,
if...else...fi,
list,
print,
prompt,
return,
run,
save.
.fi
.in 0
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All calculations double precision.
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Recursive function defining and calling.
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Builtin functions include log, exp, sin, cos, atn, int,
sqr, abs, rnd.
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Escape to ED for complex program editing.
.sh DC
Interactive programmable desk calculator.
Has named storage locations as well
as conventional stack for holding integers or programs.
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Unlimited precision decimal arithmetic.
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Appropriate treatment of decimal fractions.
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Arbitrary input and output radices, in particular
binary, octal, decimal and hexadecimal.
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Reverse Polish operators:
.in+2
.nf
+ \- * /
remainder, power, square root,
load, store, duplicate, clear,
print, enter program text, execute.
.in-2
.fi
.sh BC
A C-like interactive interface to the desk calculator DC.
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All the capabilities of DC with a high-level syntax.
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Arrays and recursive functions.
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Immediate evaluation of expressions and evaluation of
functions upon call.
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Arbitrary precision elementary functions:
exp, sin, cos, atan.
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Go-to-less programming.
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Macroprocessing
.LP
.nr c 0 1
.sh  M4
A general purpose macroprocessor.
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Stream-oriented, recognizes macros anywhere in text.
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Syntax fits with functional syntax of most higher-level
languages.
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Can evaluate integer arithmetic expressions.
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Compiler-compilers
.LP
.sh YACC
An LR(1)-based compiler writing system.
During execution of resulting
parsers, arbitrary C functions may be
called to do code generation or semantic actions.
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BNF syntax specifications.
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Precedence relations.
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Accepts formally ambiguous grammars
with non-BNF resolution rules.
.sh  LEX
Generator of lexical analyzers.
Arbitrary C functions may be called
upon isolation of each lexical token.
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Full regular expression,
plus left and right context dependence.
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Resulting lexical analysers interface cleanly
with YACC parsers.