Kent M Pitman  <pitman@world.std.com> wrote:
+---------------
| I was meaning to say that, a priori (absent special very knowledge of
| a lucky situation), I don't think _any_ reliable translation of any
| meaningful body of code between any real two languages is ever
| "trivial".  The very tiny length and simplistic nature of the "rewrite
| rules" you were offering is suggestive in and of itself of you having
| considered the issue too little.  My real point is that readers who think
| translating a large body of code is trivial and mechanical and requires
| no budget should reconsider.
| 
| I hate it when people lowball their ideas of how much work a project
| is going to take or how much it is going to cost and then badger you
| (or me) when their very naive expectation of "it shouldn't be that
| hard" is violated.  So I'm doing early expectation-control mode here.
+---------------

A reminder that Kent has at least one major project to back up these
opinions: <URL:http://www.nhplace.com/kent/Papers/Fortran-to-Lisp.html>


-Rob

-----
Rob Warnock, PP-ASEL-IA		<rpw3@rpw3.org>
627 26th Avenue			<URL:http://rpw3.org/>
San Mateo, CA 94403		(650)572-2607