Re: Translation between high level languages

Our moderator wrote:
>>[The issues in translating to a high level language aren't all that different
>>from translating to assembler, except that people care a lot more about the
>>appearance and structure of the output code...


Henry Spencer (henry@zoo.toronto.edu) wrote:
:>Full and proper translation, with maintainable output, is a very hard
:>problem; I'm told that existing tools aimed at doing this typically
:>are interactive and rely heavily on human assistance.




Maybe the place to look for information about translating to readable
HLL, is YEAR-2000 transformation tools. Some of these attempt to
translate from old, unsupported assmebler to high-level langauge code.


If I remember correctly SAPIENS (an Israeli company) has some tools
for this (something called falcon, if I remember correclty). I also
recall a company called SML - from the UK. I also heard of a tool
called Fermat, but don't have any clues about who makes it.


Hope you find this strange idea useful.


Ehud


Ehud Lamm mslamm@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il
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