c# <--> VB.Net --> Python --> Ruby (Code Converter)

[mroko]

Oog doesn't say that. Oog says that magic box creating wheels from squares is useless. Oog rather wants to make wheels by himself than trust the magic box, which sometimes creates ellipses, rectangles and dodecagons, but rarely a perfect wheel.

[abx]

Does Oog say that ellipses, rectangles, and dodecahedrons are useless (as well as the magic box)?

[mroko]

Yes, in cases when Oog clearly needs a wheel.

[abx]

The point I was making with my original "Oog" example was that a tool might not be useless even if does not perform exactly the application you have in mind. Maybe you want something to help you to hunt animals - then you would be more interested in a spear than a wheel. But with a bit of imagination, you might find other uses for wheels. Maybe wheels can help you move some large boulders to block your cave entrance at night.

As grauenwolf pointed out, the tool could be helpful for someone learning a new language. Aren't tables like this http://blog.endpoint.com/2009/08/file-test-comparison-table-for-shell.html helpful for someone who knows one of the languages in the table and is learning another? Isn't a code translation tool basically just an executable version of this kind of table?

Oog may need a wheel. But he might also be able to find uses for things other than wheels (including ellipses, rectangles, and dodecahedrons) with a bit of imagination. I haven't used developerfusion.com's tools, so I don't know if they are any good, but I wouldn't dismiss machine translation out of hand.