Re: Compiler vs. Translator

"Richard F. Man" <richard@imagecraft.com>
24 May 2004 00:26:21 -0400

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From: "Richard F. Man" <richard@imagecraft.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 24 May 2004 00:26:21 -0400
Organization: ImageCraft Creations Inc.
References: 04-05-051
Keywords: translator
Posted-Date: 24 May 2004 00:26:21 EDT

As the moderator said, this is a very complex problem. Depending on
the FORTRAN dialect, it may be many many man years of work. I would
suggest that if you can, back out of the bid, unless they are paying
you in the order of many hundreds of thousands or more.


Paul Robinson wrote:


> ....
> What brought this on was that I happened to bid on a programming job
> on rentacoder.com to write a program (in Visual Basic, of course)
> which would translate programs written in FORTRAN into Visual Basic.
> Well, since I've written programs for years using both languages I
> decided to tackle this particular assignment.
>


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// richard
http://www.imagecraft.com

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