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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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I worked on a system that had beens largely written in Pascal and converted to C with pascal2c. While the converted code compiled and ran, it was impossible to maintain in its C form. That left us tacking on new functionality around the edges but having little or no interaction with the core code. I'd like to know how this FB system with 75% reliability that the conversion even wirksis any advancement.

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