On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 10:34:46AM -0500, Paul Johnson wrote:
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Kevin Kofler
<kevin.kofler(a)chello.at> wrote:
> Kevin Kofler wrote:
>> In this case, the most obvious candidates would probably be
>> FreePascal/Lazarus and GPC, but porting to a completely different, more
>> commonly used language (I'd suggest C++) might also be worth considering
>> for upstream (depending on how hard it is to port to a Free Pascal
>> compiler).
>
> Actually, maybe this can help:
http://cp-dev.sourceforge.net/ (but it's 32-
> bit-x86-only and it might not be complete enough to build OpenBUGS yet, plus
> I still wonder why the .obc source files contain that binary metadata in
> addition to the Pascal-like code).
>
> Kevin Kofler
>
Thanks for the link. I did not know about that project yet, but it
does point over to the OpenBUGS site.
I agree with you it is a bit weird that the BUGS source code is
wrapped into those binary odc files. The most favorable
interpretation I can give this is that it is a form of literate
programming, where the code is wrapped into documentation and so
forth.
To the ODC haters: I agree, but...
This *is* an open source project, if you have the right editor. I ran
the free BlackBox program inside Wine just now. Putting code into ODC
files is not conceptually different from wrapping a CPP program into
LaTeX source code, or wrapping R code into an Rnw file. The fact that
the code is not just a flat ascii file you can read with Emacs does
not make it less open.
Is there any editor on Fedora that can handle these files? I
tried libreoffice but it appeared to crash.
Rich.
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