Do you think there is a commercial prospect for such a project? Both lexer and parser are made in prolog. I do this in my spare time and I think, the first alpha version will be ready until early 2013.
14.03.2012, 01:12, "Raul Miller" <[email protected]>: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 4:25 PM, vore omni <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Does anyone need another J-interpreter? Lexer is, the parser is almost done >> (something, of course, is not supported). Does it make sense to continue? >> Will there be a commercial benefit from it (at least in the very distant >> future)? > > An implementation of J in a language like Haskell might be interesting. > > I'm not sure that another C implementation is all that interesting. > > Note also that the parser is a language primitive: > http://www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/d332.htm > and it's not clear, to me, how an implementation using lex (or flex or > any other such tool) could be made support the full specification. > > I imagine that a yacc/bison implementation could be made to support > J's parsing rules > (http://www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/dicte.htm), but I am not > sure that I would want to do it that way (seems like more work than > necessary). > > FYI, > > -- > Raul > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
