Hi,

"Kjell Godo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I am making picoLARC on sourceforge.net and it is meant to have many
> different languages inside of it as dialects of a kind of Lisp.

I will have to give picoLARC a look when I get a chance.  The idea
seems sound to me, and I'm curious how your OOP macros would fit with
something like COLA's grammars.  I'll let you know what I think later
on.

> I am interested in the part where you generate the machine code that
> is understood by the CPU.  I would like to learn about that sort of
> thing.

I'm following COLA's lead (indeed, I'm going to use the jolt3
implementation as the basis for the first Ocean), and intending to use
a pipeline of grammars to transform the sources into ASTs, then down
to machine code.

> Is your project just starting up?

It's been in my head for a long time, but yes, this is the first real
public announcement I've made.

> What do I have to download and install into Windows to be a part of
> Ocean?

Once jolt3 is available, you shouldn't need much more than a bootstrap
binary.  I intend to provide binaries for the platforms I have access
to (i386 Linux, Windows, and OSX).

> I downloaded that Cygwin and all the development tools.  It all seemed
> really huge and expensively big.

Yeah, I hope never to have to install that stuff.

> And is it true that there is no debugger?  I mean a Smalltalk level
> debugger?

This will be one of the top priorities, as I certainly am getting sick
of debugging my programs with a bunch of printfs.  Makes me feel like
Linus Torvalds, but not in a good way. ;)

-- 
Michael FIG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> //\
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