From: Axel Etzold <AEtzold@...>
Date: 2008-10-28T04:44:14+09:00
Subject: automatic code conversion from Ruby to C ?

Dear all,

I am looking for a (semi-)automatic conversion of a Ruby script to C or C++, so
that readable source code for a human C/C++ programmer is produced.

The program should read in text from a file as a string, split and search it using regular expressions,
convert some numbers into floats and perform some calculations on them
(the latter part is done using some existing C code).

The text file to be read has  this structure:

--------------------
P1
P2 23
P4 27
--------------------
P2
P3 1
P5 457
P6 3
P377 56
--------------------

Thus, P1 is a starting point and the distance to point P2 is 23 etc.
There is a varying number of entries in each of the parts separated by 
dashes.
Is there some gem that would allow me to write a nice short
Ruby script doing the above-mentioned manipulations and translate it for me into
readable C/C++, such that I'd have to specify as few as possible size and variable
type declarations ?
I have about a hundred thousand points and relative distances, so speed could matter here ...
and I'd have a hard time defending the use of a scripting language with the people
I am collaborating here.


Thank you very much!

Best regards,

Axel 


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