I didn't think my comment would blow up as much as it did or I would have given more information:
It was an MLE / SE role, so writing code was not some taboo thing. The job was taking models and putting them onto in-house hardware with limited processing power. The code had to be fast, very fast.
So I wasn't just transpiling but putting optimizations in to the output code as well. The output format was C++, and it would output a handful of classes, which I would stitch together into the design pattern of my choosing, so the job wasn't fully automated. Nor had I wrote parts that take in the whole range of the input language, but a fraction of it, because the models only used a fraction of the language. This was far from an industry standard program, but more a quick hack in Perl, because I was in a hurry and it's the fastest prototyping language I know of. It wasn't meant to be used by anyone but me, and sometimes I would have to go in and reconfigure it if new models had anything unexpected.
To me it was just speeding up my job. I thought of it as meta programming. Something that would have taken 60 hours of crunch time, became 2 hours of writing code and testing, at a leisurely pace.
It was an MLE / SE role, so writing code was not some taboo thing. The job was taking models and putting them onto in-house hardware with limited processing power. The code had to be fast, very fast.
So I wasn't just transpiling but putting optimizations in to the output code as well. The output format was C++, and it would output a handful of classes, which I would stitch together into the design pattern of my choosing, so the job wasn't fully automated. Nor had I wrote parts that take in the whole range of the input language, but a fraction of it, because the models only used a fraction of the language. This was far from an industry standard program, but more a quick hack in Perl, because I was in a hurry and it's the fastest prototyping language I know of. It wasn't meant to be used by anyone but me, and sometimes I would have to go in and reconfigure it if new models had anything unexpected.
To me it was just speeding up my job. I thought of it as meta programming. Something that would have taken 60 hours of crunch time, became 2 hours of writing code and testing, at a leisurely pace.