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Facebook boffins bake robo-code converter to take the pain out of shifting between C++, Java, Python

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Does I error if it cant do it?

Or does - as neural nets have a habit of doing - just produce output regardless or whether its correct? For example if you had some C++ code that had it's own complex non STL data structures that involved raw pointers pointing to memory mapped files, shared memory or similar, you simply cannot do a line for line translation in Java or Python, it wont work. You have to understand the code and for want of a better word , paraphrase it or even do a ground up rewrite if the language you're translating to doesnt support the functionality.

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