Thank you for your reply! I agree with you. I will do the project anyhow. I wonder if someone else besides me needs that interpreter :)
14.03.2012, 13:54, "Jack Andrews" <[email protected]>: > hi vore, > > some people are lucky that they can sell their software inventions. > i've found the best thing to do is enjoy the work that you do in your > spare time... in that way, if your work doesn't become a financial > success, you haven't wasted time. > > it also helps to work with others, or have people to talk to about > things you enjoy. the people i find most inspiring are 3000 miles > away and i talk to them via email. > > i hope this helps. > > ta, jack. > > 2012/3/14 vore omni <[email protected]>: > >> 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
