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in thread XBASIC to Perl translator: semantical equity

Why even bother translating it? It's mission critical and it works to such satisfaction that it's considered a reference implementation - translated code should work identical to the original, instead of adhering to some specification.

Why take the risk of breaking it?

Abigail

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Re: Re: Mission critial code required: I have some code in BASIC and require it to be translated to perl
by Anonymous Monk on Apr 17, 2004 at 21:26 UTC

    BTW I thought about Inline'ing, but XBASIC isn't supported yet.

    There is no specification - just code. The author did some comments within the scientific paper, but no mathematical formula or whatever were used to introduce the idea behind it. So i have the bare bone xbasic code which i want to play with. But i am reluctant to use xbasic, but prefer to have perl code (which the original author doesnt supply). I am looking forward to enhance it (DBI, XML, etc).

    I especially fear that perl will suffer "numerical instabilities" when floating points were used.

    20040417 Edit by Corion: Exchanged PRE tags for P tags

    Edit2 by Chady: fixed link.

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