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From: sts@ssc-vax.UUCP (Stanley T Shebs)
Newsgroups: net.ai
Subject: Re: Lisp-to-Lisp translation
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Date: Wed, 24-Aug-83 16:20:12 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 24 16:20:12 1983
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These problems just go to show what AI people have known for years
(ever since the first great bust of machine translation) - ya can't
translate without understanding what yer translating.  Optimizing
compilers are often impressive encodings of expert coders' knowledge,
and they are for very simple languages - not like Interlisp or English

						stan the lep hacker
						ssc-vax!sts (soon utah-cs)