🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <D7ILst.2Eu@world.std.com>,
Andrew M. Langmead <aml@world.std.com> wrote:
...
(someone else wrote)
>>    (presumably) interpret awk code.
>
>With the a2p (awk to perl) translator included with the perl
>distribution, it may not even have that.

Get serious.  Suppose you have a working (non-trivial) AWK program.  You
are convinced that it works (it has passed all of your QC tests).  You
read the a2p man page, which says, and I quote:

  A2p cannot do as good a job translating as  a  human  would,
  but it usually does pretty well.  There are some areas where
  you may want to examine the perl script produced  and  tweak
  it some.  Here are some of them, in no particular order.

Not exactly words to fill one with confidence that this is going to be a
painless operation.  At the very least, you'd better be sure you have
money in your budget for a whole new round of QC.

"Pretty well" ???  Hmmm...

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