From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2003-01-18T05:47:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Automating Perl -> Ruby translation?

Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@soyabean.com.au> wrote:
> On Friday, January 17, 2003, 10:25:42 PM, Martin wrote:
> 
>> So do it bottom-up :) Seriously, it'd help get smoe of the more useful
>> cpan libraries ported.
> 
> I thought we were benefiting from a lot of porting already.  What are
> some things you want to see?

We are, but we could always do with more :) Personally, I'd like to see
Ruby ports of a number of the Lingua-EN and Text- modules
(Text::Balanced in particular). And in general, there's definitely some
reasonably mindless transformation work involved in porting, and there's
no reason a computer couldn't handle that part for us.

martin