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SoftTalkeryesterday at 2:55 PM1 replyview on HN

Why is porting a program from one language to another seen as some great achievement? We had f2c in the 1990s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F2c


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throw16180339yesterday at 5:29 PM

This isn't a valid comparison. f2c is a compiler and the output isn't intended to be human readable.

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