On 11/07/2017 11:01 PM, Eric S. Raymond via devel wrote: > The problem is that the hard parts of language translation really need a > parser making an AST (Augmented Syntax Tree), then a transformation on the > AST generating a report in the target syntax. That's what you hit in the > last 15% - it's difficult to so and very difficult to integrate with > regexp-bashing. > And on 11/08/2017 05:03 AM, he wrote :
> If we do this, I expect to write my own equivalent of c2go and > make it work about as well as they did. I probably won't > publish it either. Eric, since you are an expert in YACC-based systems, would it be worth the effort to write such an AST-generating parser, and using *that*? Maybe not to the level of a releasable tool, but to get beyond the 80% point? Or does that fall under diminishing returns? - *John D. Bell*
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