Interesting find there man. Here Tom Harwood's sig is "Neo Compiler/Runtime Development" http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg89628.html
He also hypothetically mentions "a tool that generates compiler back ends", so that seems to jive with his line of work. I don't know a lot about what a compiler back end is, but I gather it is what kind of target platforms (virtual machines?) a compiler generates executable code for. I'm probably way off though :) His example is supposedly hypothetical, but Macromedia is obviously open sourcing code, and likely the code has to do with compilers, because that is Tom's area of expertise. I'm unclear what a tool that generated backends would do though, but I love to speculate...so perhaps more specifically in CF's case, it is a tool that generates the different versions of the CF Java runtimes for the different platforms it runs on? As platform independent Java tries to be, there are still differences, and I imagine that as they developed Neo, a way to quickly compile all of different versions for testing would be quite handy. I'm not sure what would be gained by open sourcing such a program would be though...but he said "one of the tools", so what would a suite of open-source tools that were developed while developing a CF to Java compiler be good for? Probably many things I don't understand, but the one thing that I could these tools being used for is development of alternative platforms and runtimes for the CF language to run on... -- jon Sunday, June 23, 2002, 5:27:34 PM, you wrote: JvD> http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3:mss:5412:200206:obepddfmianmkimodojl JvD> <speculation> JvD> To me, the most interesting part is that it is being submitted by JvD> somebody who puts "CFML Language Development" in his signature (instead JvD> of somebody who works on Flash players). Could it be that a formal CFML JvD> definition, perhaps with some code, is going to go public? Or is it for JvD> the CF versions that have to run on top op J2EE servers of other vendors? JvD> </speculation> JvD> Jochem ______________________________________________________________________ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
