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		DoubleCluster on Feb 25, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Has Joel Spolsky Jumped the Shark? (2006) Did you ever try to translate one language into another? Usually it's just generating the AST that is the hard part, then you can just spit out code and let the compiler for the target language do the hard stuff.

chollida1 on Feb 26, 2013 [–]

Hmm, for me it's always been tougher trying to determine what the source language should compile down into.

AST generation is usually simple. It's the conversion to the other language that usually get's difficult.

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