DeRobertis wrote:
> At 12:37 AM -0800 on 11/11/99, Michael Fair wrote:
>
> >2) If you had the American decompiler installed on your system,
> > the German stack would get decompiled into its American
> > equivalent because the decompiler deals with the bytecodes
> > not the German.
>
> Please look at the decompiler in Interpreter. It decompiles into something
> like assembly code -- not NuTalk. Decompiling into NuTalk is not a project
> I'd wish upon my worst enemy.
Which is why you wouldn't be implementing it, and also
why the initial state of the project would be that a German
Stack couldn't be used by an American programmer. There
is someone out there who would be up for this, and anything
we can do to make their life easier would be good.
> >English -> OC byte codes -> platform specific assembly
>
> No -- it goes like this:
>
> English -> NullCPU assembly
>
> Where NullCPU (I hope I got that name right!) is a platform-specific
> made-up CPU.
>
> Or are you proposing an intermediary "OC byte code"? Actually, I might be
> switching to something like that -- the parser is giving me nightmares as
> it is now. And it would allow a lot of stuff like that.
That is exactly what I am proposing and exactly why I am
proposing it. :)
I think this would take us into a whole new world of
possibilities for xTalk languages.
-- Michael --
