Re: Building a translator. Want to know if this is feasible...

Reading this post I thought this example:
We have an old working device which does some logic transformations
between input and output. We also have the schematic diagram. The
device is made by old tubes and metallic wire resistors. How to
automatically produce a schematic which uses modern ICs?


I think the only answer is "emulate".
A more serious answer remind me an old Esprit project in the european
community: build software that helps the huge CEE's translation job.
The better results were translation CADs, that is software that helps
translators to recognize and automatize only the repetitive tasks.
For the rest, human mind was (and still is) irreplaceable.


The schematic example helps me to support my opinion: we should change
the monodimensional view of a text source code for some bidimensional
views, which is 1 to 1 representation of the code.


Enrico




"socrates" <socrates171@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:02-11-013...
> Hello all,
>
> There is a computer language that has been dead for over a decade.
> However, there are numerous programs that have been built using this
> dead language.
>
> Now my "pending task" will be to make a translator that converts this
> dead language to an object-oriented language like java.

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