Re:The Apple II Source Code for the LOGO Language Found
by effish on Friday October 05, 2018 @10:40AM
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There is a gray area there. But we are talking about translating an existing model program and algorithms, not looking at the program as a black box and recreating its behavior.
As the person who translated the Pascal Logo model to TI9900 assembler it was definitely the case that at the beginning of the project I translated every line of Pascal to a few instructions of assembler. By the end I was just looking at the gist of what a routine would do (its “contract” as they say) and writing it in assembler as you would new code.
It’s much like translating a literary work. There’s a famous quotation (which I’m not comfortable relating in full) about translations being either faithful or beautiful but not both.
Essentially maybe I became a fluent native speaker of 9900 assembler.
As the person who translated the Pascal Logo model to TI9900 assembler it was definitely the case that at the beginning of the project I translated every line of Pascal to a few instructions of assembler. By the end I was just looking at the gist of what a routine would do (its “contract” as they say) and writing it in assembler as you would new code.
It’s much like translating a literary work. There’s a famous quotation (which I’m not comfortable relating in full) about translations being either faithful or beautiful but not both.
Essentially maybe I became a fluent native speaker of 9900 assembler.