From: Dylan Evans <dylan.star@...>
Date: 2009-03-20T21:34:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Writing a language converter in Ruby ?

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It's a good idea to use a parser generator, it will simplify your code and
make it easier to work with. Of course you can just start reading the basic
files and parse them with a bunch of logic. Of course the code quality will
always be much higher if you just rewrite it, unless you want to compile it
but then you would want to target C.


On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 9:02 PM, Zouplaz <user@domain.invalid> wrote:

> Hi, I wonder where to start if I wanted to write a converter from XX
> language source code to Ruby source code or from Ruby to XX ?
>
> Eg. Converting Basic source code to Ruby ?
>
> Do I absolutely need to use a tool like CocoR
> (http://www.zenspider.com/ZSS/Products/CocoR/) ? Or is there a standalone
> approach that only uses Ruby capacities ?
>
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