Automated rewrite FTW! This can help you avoid freezing a project while it is being ported. Also, if you have a code base with its own idioms, then those idioms can be matched and translated, which can produce cleaner target code.
I was also talking about projects and porting in general. Incidentally, I've been paid to do exactly what we're discussing. (Porting a production program using automated translation.) It works.
