Warren Young wrote: > On Jan 31, 2019, at 11:12 AM, mark <m.roth at 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 ))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))