I had a similar experience when trying to convert old procedural dBase to 
object oriented. There was a converter that came with Visual Foxpro that would 
attempt to convert a procedural app into an OOP one, but it was a miserable 
failure. There were too many differences, and what you ended up with was a very 
non-optimized OOP app if it worked right at all, which was seldom. The general 
consensus among those who were moving to Visual Foxpro was that it was far 
better to develop from scratch than to try and convert. Sound familiar? 

Bob


On Jan 23, 2012, at 12:51 PM, Bob Earp wrote:

> Then again, going from ToolBook to Rev (now LC) with an eLearning authoring 
> system and LMS, which is equally as complex, was a complete failure using the 
> converter route. The syntax was just a tad too different/obtuse, plus Rev had 
> built in functions that I had to script in TB.  So the end result was rebuild 
> from scratch with a much better product.  I did have the original project 
> documentation too !!


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