The realities of language conversions

Authors
Terekhov, AA Verhoef, C
Citation
Aa. Terekhov et C. Verhoef, The realities of language conversions, IEEE SOFTW, 17(6), 2000, pp. 111
Citations number
21
Categorie Soggetti
Computer Science & Engineering
Journal title
IEEE SOFTWARE
ISSN journal
07407459 → ACNP
Volume
17
Issue
6
Year of publication
2000
Database
ISI
SICI code
0740-7459(200011/12)17:6<111:TROLC>2.0.ZU;2-K
Abstract
Billions of lines of code that have been written in Cobol, PL/I, and other old programming languages are still in active use. Many commercial efforts to convert these to more modern languages have begun, but few have succeede d. These authors discuss the nuts and bolts of conversion between several p airs of languages and some of the possibilities and limitations of automati ng language conversion.