I've never found converters to be useful either. They generally don't result in code that takes advantage of the language which you're converting to and as such many of the idioms for the particular language are lost in the "translation". This typically results in people getting a bad flavor for a language and having a poor initial impression.
I recognize that my feelings on this matter are likely skewed due to me using poor converters in the past, but, nonetheless, I'm very skeptical. +1 on someone creating starter kits from scratch to show the power/usefulness of IronRuby :) Cheers, Steve On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 4:46 AM, Sanghyeon Seo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/8/6 Jim Deville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Would a converter even be worth it? The last time I tried to use one, the > code was worthless, and had to be rewritten anyway. > > Well, for some codes full of simple if-then-else, such converters can > be useful. Usefulness of cross-language converters are limited in > general though. > > -- > Seo Sanghyeon > _______________________________________________ > Ironruby-core mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core >
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