Waldemar Kornewald wrote:
I unfortunately expected that some clearer direction would already exist. I'd like to thank everyone who helped me understand the current situation.
G'day Waldemar:
This thread has prompted me to re-read Ian's 'widespread unreasonable behavior' paper. I think that it does provide a clear direction for this project, though it may not be the direction that you want to do. At least, not yet. You're concerned about syntax and programmer productivity. FONC seeks to improve programmer productivity, which may be what attracted your attention, but syntax is a secondary consideration. Once the infrastructure is is sufficiently functional, you can have any syntax you want, as long as someone is willing to write the transformations to an abstract syntax tree that can be fed to the COLA tools. Initial syntaxes look likely to C99 and Smalltalk, but Python shouldn't be difficult with the work being done on the PyPy project. Their Python in Python framework already targets C, Java, JavaScript, Lisp, and LLVM. COLA should be quite feasible, as well.
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