Don't use automated translators for mission-critical code. Hire someone to translate it for you. If it's mission-critical, it's worth something to someone, right? Well, make them prove it.

I don't know. If you have a lot of source code in Foo then it can be more time efficient and less error prone to re-implement a Foo compiler that targets something else than it is to translate all the code by hand.

I once had to help shift a fair sized app (about 20KLOC) from some old PDP-11 hardware that was implemented in a home grown bastard offspring of Lisp and Prolog. Rather that translate the code we just re-implemented the language in Common Lisp. I guarantee that doing a manual translation of the code would have taken a heck of a lot longer, and probably introduced a bunch of errors into working code.

In reply to Re^2: Mission critial code required: I have some code in BASIC and require it to be translated to perl by adrianh
in thread XBASIC to Perl translator: semantical equity by Anonymous Monk

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