From: Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@...>
Date: 2003-01-18T05:13:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Automating Perl -> Ruby translation?

On Sat, 18 Jan 2003, Phil Tomson wrote:

> Parsing Perl is not easy...

There's a saying among Perl mongers:

  "Only Perl can parse Perl"   :-)

Seriously, I'm sure that this is possible, but I'm not sure it's worth
it.  It might be better to translate CPAN to Ruby.  Unfortunatelly, nearly
all of CPAN is written with XS, which is a Perl-only tool.  I don't know
how hard it'd be to translate XS to SWIG, but my experience is that XS is
quite complicated.

Daniel Carrera
Graduate Teaching Assistant.  Math Dept.
University of Maryland.  (301) 405-5137