Automated translation from C++ to D

[James Dunne]

bobef wrote:
> Hasan Aljudy wrote:
> 
>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>
>>> "Georg Wrede" <georg.wrede at nospam.org> wrote in message 
>>> news:43FB4E35.5080606 at nospam.org...
>>>
>>>> Compile the C++ "half-way" (your choice of which passes), and then 
>>>> translate that to D source code?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> It would be nearly useless, because one has to adopt different 
>>> algorithms.
>>>
>>
>> Why? Aren't the constructs pretty much the same?
> 
> 
> Everything is the same. It is just bits in the memory, which is 
> electricity, which is energy, which is everything...
> 
>>
>> C++ classes maybe a hell to parse, but it's possible (obviously has 
>> been done), and they must be translatable to D classes!
>>
>> Templates can be translated to templates (I assume ..)
>>
>> variables to variables ..
>> functions to functions ..
>>
>> One thing that comes to mind is passing objects *by-value* but I think 
>> it can be simulated with D structs? (D structs can be passed by value, 
>> am I not correct?)
>>
> 
> I think the question is not is it possible. Of course it is, if your 
> brain can do you, the computer can do it too. The question is does it 
> worth the effort, and I believe the answer has been already given...

My thinking exactly.  If your brain can do it, a computer can too.  The 
effort involved out of the brain in order to coax the computer into 
doing it is the question. =)

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Regards,
James Dunne