On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 11:58 +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
> > There is a Perl to C compiler called a "programmer".
>
> But that's a proprietary solution.
>
> > Prices and availability varies and so does the quality of the
> > translation. They are usually not sold, but rented,
>
> Proprietary solution of the worst kind. The kind where you pay lots of
> money (and I know that some "programmer" vendors charge you an arm and a
> leg, not to mention the price of constant rent if you want to keep the
> utility on retainer), and you don't even end up owning said programmer.
Why is it proprietary solution of the worst kind?
As long as the code in question is Free Software, this is actually the
best solution there is, and it is officially approved by the august
philosophers and rabbis of Free Software.
--- Omer
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