>>>>> Allover Stripes writes: AS> How hard is it to write a translator?
It's moderately hard to write a Hurd-distribution-quality, efficient translator. You need to understand the Hurd libraries, Mach RPC, and cthreads in order to do it well, but there are many examples, and with some effort, you'll make it past the learning curve. On the other hand, it would be interesting to write a wrapper translator that ran subprograms something like a web server does CGIs. I called this idea `progio'. It would be quite useful for novices to begin experimenting with them. AS> I remember (months ago) Gordon Matzigkeit wrote a gizmo that AS> allowed development and testing of translators on other OSes. AS> What became of it? It's really quite silly, but may give you some idea of the direction I'm headed. ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/trans-0.0a.tar.gz The core idea will soon be resurrected, but under the name `metafs'. -- Gordon Matzigkeit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> //\ I'm a FIG (http://www.fig.org/) Committed to freedom and diversity \// I use GNU (http://www.gnu.org/)
