Re: [Cardinal-dev] Ping?!

[Erik Bågfors]

On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 11:24, Einar Karttunen wrote:
> On 12.11 16:12, Erik Bågfors wrote:
> > Should we get this thing started??  Could people please say if they are
> > interested in helping and what they want to do?
> 
> I could work on either on the compiler implementation, or implementing
> Ruby standard library on top of parrot.

Great!

> I have some experience doing stuff like this, and have written few compilers 
> and VMs. However I don't currently have the time to start designing things.
> I'd love to use a parser understanding EBNF as a basis instead of the
> parsers currently available wich interact directly with bison/yacc.
> 
> I think I could write a such parser before christmas in Ruby. This would
> help other projects also. Of course the first goal is a stable API and
> not performance.
> 
> We can cheat a little bit in the compiler, as we don't have to do stuff
> like register assigments/overflow ourselves. As there is a tool for 
> doing that from symbolic parrot assembler code.

I assume you mean using imcc?

It would be great to see a parser before christmas but there are many
different parsers and what we really need is a compiler.  (of course,
there might be reasons not to use any of the current parsers and write a
new but be aware of the once that do exist)

I think we should try to agree on a way forward together.

So.  You and the other people that wants to work with the
compiler/parser should really talk and decide which way to go.

/Erik

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