Yes, these threads are little gems by themselves, thank you!
I hope I am not straying too much from the main topic when asking about what I
think is a related problem: a great help for playing with languages are the
tools. Since we are talking about bootstrapping everything, we would ideally
also be able to generate the tools together with all the rest. This is a
somewhat different kind of language bootstrap, where actions and predicates in
the language grammar have their own grammar, so they don't need to rely on any
host language, but still allow one to flexibly generate a lot of boilerplate
code, including for example classes (or other language specific structures)
representing the AST nodes, including visiting code, formatters, code
comparison tools, even abstract(ideally with a flexible level of
abstraction)evaluation code over those AST nodes, and debuggers. This obviously
goes beyond language syntax, one needs an execution model as well (perhaps in
combination with a worlds-like approach). I am still not
sure how far one can go, what can be succinctly specified and how.
I would greatly appreciate any pointers in this direction
Florin
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From: Monty Zukowski <mo...@codetransform.com>
To: Fundamentals of New Computing <fonc@vpri.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 12:20 AM
Subject: Re: [fonc] Kernel & Maru
Thank you everyone for the great references. I've got some homework
to do now...
Monty
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Ian Piumarta <piuma...@speakeasy.net> wrote:
> Extending Alan's comments...
>
> A small, well explained, and easily understandable example of an iterative
> implementation of a recursive language (Scheme) can be found in R. Kent
> Dybvig's Ph.D. thesis.
>
> http://www.cs.unm.edu/~williams/cs491/three-imp.pdf
>
> Regards,
> Ian
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