> Advice to port it to another language when they don’t understand what it is doing in the original language seems like a recipe for failure to me. That depend

> Advice to port it to another language when they don’t understand what it is doing in the original language seems like a recipe for failure to me. That depends. I make in my career A LOT of ports from OLD -> NEW. In the very short term, is not good. But in the mid/long term is certainly right if the new lang provide significant advantages (and in the case of C: Almost any other lang provide significant advantages!). The case of C make some no-brainer stuff go out of the window. Making your own hash-table? String? Memory management? All that is a mini-major project and besides the core task. If you don't know C very well, you will screw up your strings, your hash, your memory: How that helps when ALSO you screw up your core tasks?.