Neural Code Translation of Legacy Code: APL to C#

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.13896v1
• Date: Tue, 12 May 2026 12:11:33 GMT
• Title: Neural Code Translation of Legacy Code: APL to C#
• Abstract summary: This paper investigates the translation of APL into C# using large language models.<n>We introduce a novel framework for APL-to-C# translation by comparing three guided strategies.<n>Our results demonstrate that neural code translation can successfully bridge the gap between APL and C# for a wide range of programs.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Automatic translation between programming languages remains a challenging problem, particularly when the source language is highly concise and specialized. This paper investigates the translation of APL into C# using large language models. The task is difficult due to APL's sparse syntax, the scarcity of large-scale parallel corpora, and the requirement for specialized knowledge to interpret APL programs. To address these challenges, we introduce a novel framework for APL-to-C# translation by comparing three guided strategies, namely natural language description-mediated, retrieval-augmented, and iterative refinement, against a baseline direct translation model. We constructed multiple datasets of functionally equivalent code pairs spanning various levels of complexity, and to rigorously assess translation quality, we developed an automated evaluation pipeline that verifies both syntactic compilation and functional execution of the generated C# code. Our results demonstrate that neural code translation can successfully bridge the gap between APL and C# for a wide range of programs, and that incorporating additional context and guidance significantly improves model performance.

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