Re: [Tinycc-devel] OSX

[Peter \"Firefly\" Lund]

On Sun, 20 Apr 2003, Jim Peters wrote:

> > ad 3) It would be easier if you knew a little -- like, what is a parser, a
> >   lexer, intermediate code, register allocation, a code generator, etc.
> >   Please tell us what you know -- it is much easier to direct you then.
>
> I think he must know something about compilers, having designed and
> implemented a complete language (follow sig links!):

The questions sounded a bit naive so I wasn't sure how much he knew -- if
you don't know that it is very hard to answer very general questions.

>   http://www.iolanguage.com/

I have looked at it now.  It looks like a cute language and VM -- but the
structure is neatly chosen to sidestep most of the stuff I mentioned above
:)

It gets into other issues: reflection/introspection, garbage collection,
VM design.

I tend to prefer applicative languages with strong typing, myself, though.
Still, anything inspired by Ungar can't be all that bad ;)

(Urs Hoelzle's work is also worth a study)

-Peter