>> It is definitely _not_ possible. There are so many design decisions >> that are differing based on what a language offers - e.g. generators, >> garbage collection, precise control over memory layout and so on. > > Inter-language translators have been written. There's usually > a performance penalty, which can be severe when the idioms of > the languages are quite different.
The point discussed here was not the feasibility of language-translators per se. These are certainly possible, yet I doubt that e.g. C++2Python would really come to existence. Thomas expressed his belief that a _idiomatic_ translator was possible. And that certainly isn't the case. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
