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by SoftTalker 5 days ago
Why is porting a program from one language to another seen as some great achievement? We had f2c in the 1990s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F2c
1 comments
throw16180339 5 days ago
This isn't a valid comparison. f2c is a compiler and the output isn't intended to be human readable.
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krupan 4 days ago
Plenty of people telling us not to bother reading code output by LLMs
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