A program doesn't have to have an ill-formed ownership model. But if it does and you're trying to translate from one language to another, you should probably p

A program doesn't have to have an ill-formed ownership model. But if it does and you're trying to translate from one language to another, you should probably pick the language that makes the job easier. It reminds me of a programming assignment I had 20 years ago. We had to take our teacher's old FORTRAN program and "convert" it to Java or C++. I knew both equally well at the time - and I picked C++ because it had goto whereas Java didn't. This meant that I didn't really have to unravel the meaning of the program. Whereas with Java, I would have to.