I recently took on a small project where I had to rewrite a PHP program in Perl. While I don't want to say an automatic converter is impossible, my own experience was that human involvement was beneficial to the project.

Compiling C down to machine code works because nobody ever has to look at the machine code again. But in translating from one high level language to another, this is a source-code transition. I assume that the new source code would need to be maintained over time. Just looking at the mess made by automatic HTML/CSS generators (which is less complex than a high level language like Perl) should be warning enough to realize that an automated translation would produce messy, read-only code.

But who knows... maybe the next reply in this thread will have a perfect solution. ;)


Dave

In reply to Re: Has anyone attempted to create a PHP to Perl converter? by davido
in thread Has anyone attempted to create a PHP to Perl converter? by taint

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