Timeline for Are VB.NET to C# converters actually compilers?
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| Apr 12, 2017 at 7:31 | history | edited | CommunityBot | replaced http://programmers.stackexchange.com/ with https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/ | |
| Nov 3, 2013 at 21:40 | vote | accept | Rowan Freeman | ||
| Nov 3, 2013 at 18:47 | answer | added | Craig Tullis | timeline score: 4 | |
| Oct 28, 2013 at 19:47 | comment | added | Robert Harvey | No. VB.NET to C# converters are just that... converters. They mostly transform syntax. There's no guarantee that the resulting code will compile; I've seen them fail more often than not to provide an accurate translation, depending on the complexity of the code. If they were true compilers, that wouldn't happen. There are several steps in the compilation process that these converters don't do. | |
| Oct 28, 2013 at 19:37 | history | edited | user53019 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | focused question on VB -> C# transition as it's a little bit different of a question than the suggested duplicate. |
| Oct 28, 2013 at 7:40 | answer | added | Arseni Mourzenko | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 28, 2013 at 7:30 | comment | added | btilly | Answer: yes. A compiler takes one language and rewrites it in another. Anything that does that qualifies, no matter whether it is common to call it a compiler. | |
| Oct 28, 2013 at 7:24 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Oct 28, 2013 at 7:08 | comment | added | Kilian Foth | possible duplicate of How can I say that programming language compiles to other languages? | |
| Oct 28, 2013 at 6:49 | history | asked | Rowan Freeman | CC BY-SA 3.0 |