This article is about machine translation. It discusses the advantages and disadvantages of this kind of translation and highlights several aspects of the translation process by machines. Among other items, the author discusses the effort model used in machine translation. She concludes by saying that the system put forward in the article is akin to human translation in technique and to machine translation by its use of data-processing as a bridge between two languages. As such, the system has a role to play in supplementing both.