Warren Young wrote:
On Jan 31, 2019, at 11:12 AM, mark m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Why would *ANYONE* think that everyone should just start from scratch, taking all the time in the world to get it converted?
If the conversion were simple enough to be easily automated, the new system is probably no more than just a syntactic difference away from the old, and thus does not provide any interesting new functionality or change in existing functionality.
Note that I spoke with my manager about using zones, and his opinion is they're crap - ok for one box, but not for the firewall usage I'm working on.
It’s much the same as asking why there aren’t automatic programming language conversion tools: we wouldn’t need more than one programming language if they all mapped 1:1 to each other, short of going down to the machine code level and back up the technology stack.
You mean like the one I meant to use 25 or so years ago, basic2c? You let them do the mass conversion, then you fix it. A lot faster than rewriting *everything*.
Unless you're talking about a program that converts from, say, C, to lisp.... <snip> mark ))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))