> There is no such thing as "just rewrite it in X". People do it all the time, every day. Code has side affects and features you don't necessarily need. NIH is

> There is no such thing as "just rewrite it in X". People do it all the time, every day. Code has side affects and features you don't necessarily need. NIH is usually, "don't need most of that here" or "language X would do it cleaner/with-less-bugs(tm)", which is different wording for the exact same reasoning. So I'm not sure why the focus on this line-by-line conversion that nobody would choose to do. On the other hand, rewriting my java chat server in erlang (in 2008) went from 5000 lines to about 500. That was a point by point functionality conversion of my own project, for existing java clients.