John Nall  2006 Jan 23, Mon 15:25
> I have a fairly lengthy assembly language program, written 
> for the 18F452.  I want to convert it to run on a dsPIC30F.  
> I can do that by hand, of course, but I also think that most 
> likely, in the same amount of time, I can write some sort of 
> translator program (probably in Perl, although I have not 
> looked at the Camel book in a while.  But associative arrays 
> are easier to do in Perl than in C, IMHO.  Others may
> differ.) to do the same thing.  I might not save any time, 
> granted, but us hobbyists have more time than money, anyway.  
> And it would be a neat thing to do.
> 

That would be a "cool hack!"

> 
> Anyway . . . if anyone has done this, or is interested in 
> doing this, I would like to hear from them.  Even if they 
> have not actually done anything, their thoughts would most 
> likely be educational.  If I do it (which has a probability 
> of around 95%, depending on what sort of activities my wife 
> thinks she has me signed up for), then it will be under 
> Linux.  One can do Perl under Windows, but it is kind of a 
> nauseating experience.  IMHO.

If you write it... I won't come, but I would be willing to brave the nausea
and try to translated it to the Perl under Windows and make it available at
piclist.com as a service so people don't have to install Perl or worry about
what OS they run as long as they have access to the web.

Let me know...

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