I've done a bit of porting BASIC code to other languages. My first step is to reverse engineer it to a spec, then I write a new version from that. I know some

I've done a bit of porting BASIC code to other languages. My first step is to reverse engineer it to a spec, then I write a new version from that. I know some people start with a straight port with goto and everything, then try to fix the structure later. That always sounded harder to me.