Ask HN: Any service available to translate 60 lines of Algol60 code into Ruby?

Posted by vinnyglennon on Sunday July 01, 2018 @03:59PM
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Re:Ask HN: Any service available to translate 60 lines of Al... by kristoft on Sunday July 01, 2018 @04:39PM (#17437426)

I don’t think there is any service for that, but I think somebody from community can help. 60 lines is not so many:)

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Re:Ask HN: Any service available to translate 60 lines of Al... by vinnyglennon on Sunday July 01, 2018 @05:57PM (#17437856)

Yes, that is my hope. Happy to pay, I just don't know who to ask. Any recommendations?

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Re:Ask HN: Any service available to translate 60 lines of Al... by kristoft on Monday July 02, 2018 @04:16AM (#17440051)

You know, i'm a programming languages enthusiast and always happy to dig in some code. If you can show me the code, i can take a look & see if i can help. No money needed %)

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Re:Ask HN: Any service available to translate 60 lines of Al... by BjoernKW on Monday July 02, 2018 @03:58AM (#17439978)

I haven't written any Algol 60 code but from a cursory look it doesn't look too alien. The keywords and basic concepts look similar to those in modern procedural languages. So, depending on the complexity of the original code, perhaps trying to translate the code without any previous Algol 60 knowledge might be a viable approach, too.

Other than that, this sounds like a problem that could be solved by pairing an Algol 60 and a Ruby programmer if you can't find someone who knows both languages.

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Re:Ask HN: Any service available to translate 60 lines of Al... by thorin on Wednesday July 04, 2018 @08:55AM (#17456981)

Why don't you link the source, some people might find it interesting...

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