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C++ to Java would be more interesting.

True. But also adds a lot of complexity on top of an already very complex translation. But it's certainly something we'll look at in the future (together with supporting Cobol and Fortran).

But I heard there are C++ to C translators. I don't know how good they are and how the resulting code looks like. But if they're decent, you could do C++ -> C -> Java :)

On the C++ to C translators: The first actual C++ compiler was actually a trans-compiler to C (actually the language was still called cFront back then, but basically it's the first version of C++[0]).

So in that case, the C++ to C compiler was there before the first real C++ compiler which appeared some time later.

[0] http://www.cplusplus.com/info/history/

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