Well, language converters might be useful sometimes: 1. When you have huge codebase in some language (usually an old one) and having trouble find people to maintain it (think Cobol payroll system written 30 years ago)
2. When you have huge codebase on some very expensive platform/system and want to cut costs by switching to open platform/system 3. When you are very good at one language and want to use it for something it wasn't designed for (think GWT aka Java to Javascript translator) I've been working for years in a company that makes millions doing points 1 and 2. I'm not sure how useful C# to Ruby compiler would be though. Starter kits' goal is to demonstrate the language abilities and converted code can be really ugly so that probably bad idea. Migration to ASP.NET MVC is interesting point. What else? -- Oleg From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Eichert Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 5:58 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Ironruby-core] Any one working on...C# to IronRuby Converter...? 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]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: 2008/8/6 Jim Deville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[email protected]> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core
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