On Nov 20, 2010, at 9:08 AM, Jon Harrop wrote: >> Do we have example of big companies porting their whole codebase to >> another language ? > > Yes, of course. Companies modernise all the time. We have a client who just > started porting 1MLOC of C++ to F#.
How they do that ? Are they using compiler frontends to assist them in automatically translating part of the code to F# ? > Flying Frog have ported hundreds of > thousands of lines of OCaml to F#. OCaml and F# are very similar language, so such porting does not look that hard. Translating from C++ to F#, or from PHP to Java seems more complicated. I wonder what kind of techniques people have developed to help such language-to-language translation. > It happens all the time but it is even > more likely to happen as a consequence of multicore. > > Cheers, > Jon. > > _______________________________________________ Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management: http://yquem.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/caml-list Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs
