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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/07/2017 11:01 PM, Eric S. Raymond
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<pre wrap="">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.
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<div class="moz-signature">And on 11/08/2017 05:03 AM, he wrote
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<pre wrap="">> 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.
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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?<br>
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- <font color="#000099"><b><font face="Brush Script MT"
size="+3">John D. Bell</font></b></font> </div>
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