On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 06:18:26PM -0700, Ian Piumarta wrote: > I recommend you get hold of > - Parsing Techniques: A Practical Guide > - SPPF-Style Parsing from Earley Recognisers > - Practical Earley Parsing
Whoa, thanks. Will do right away. > > - Read scientific papers. […] > > - Build a toy from scratch.[…] > > These two are fun to do in parallel. They feed each other very well. Okay. > > Here is how I would imagine my dream world. It would be a central > > repository with: > > > > - A toy Maru, optimised for clarity. > > - A tutorial for writing your own toy. > > - A serious Maru, lifted up from the toy. > > - A tutorial for lifting your own toy up. > > - The hand-written bootstrap compilers (for understanding, and the > > Trusting Trust problem). > > > > Does this dream world sounds possible? Is it even a good idea? > > I hope so, and I think so. […] > By the time you're on the third step, the above hierarchy could > begin to support source code representations intended for ease of > understanding. By third step, I gather you mean "serious Maru". What do you mean by "supporting source code representations indented for ease of understanding"? Structure editing? Code folding? Something like Bret Victor's work (learnable programming, visual representations for Nile…)? Loup. _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list fonc@vpri.org http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
