Which is easier? Translating from C++ or from Java...

Kent Johnson kent37 at tds.net
Mon Mar 28 17:19:44 EST 2005


cjl wrote:
> Hey all:
> 
> I'm working on a 'pure' python port of some existing software.
> 
> Implementations of what I'm trying to accomplish are available (open
> source) in C++ and in Java.
> 
> Which would be easier for me to use as a reference?

I haven't touched C++ in a long time, my experience porting Java to Jython is that it mostly 
involves deleting stuff :-)

I hacked together a script that does a lot of the work by applying a bunch of regex replacements.

Kent



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