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- From: Bill Michell <Bill@mics.demon.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: LOOKING FOR: Visual Basic to MSVC translator
- Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 15:43:41 +0100
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- In article <4jrpvq$h1g@enterprise.turningpoint.com>, Jim Park
- <jimp@turningpoint.com> writes
- >We have a client with 16,000 lines of Visual Basic source code which they wish
- >to
- >translate to Visual C++.
- >
- >Can anyone recommend a translation utility?
- >
- >Thanks for the help,
- >Jim Park
- >
- >jpark@turningpoint.com
- >
- >
- This question hardly warrants a reply - Visual Basic and Visual C are
- not similar enough for automatic translation to work in an acceptable
- fashion. OK, they've both got the word Visual in the title, both run
- under Windows (of whatever flavour) and are both sold by Microsoft. But
- apart from that, the whole philosophy is different.
-
- Any line-for-line translation of VB source code would probably be so
- unwieldy as to be almost unusable, if you could persuade it to work at
- all.
-
- One would have to ask why your client wishes to translate the code. If
- it is because the existing program is too slow, then simply coding a few
- key functions (by hand to produce reasonable code) in C or C++ might be
- all that was needed, and it would save the trouble of re-writing the
- interface.
-
- If instead they wish to produce a more professional-looking application
- (ie one that doesn't need to ship with VBRUNx00.DLL), then they're going
- to have to put a lot of hard work in...
- --
- Bill Michell eMail: Bill@mics.demon.co.uk
-