I think it fits, although honestly Java is less important than C or Fortran. But there are some numerical uses of it.
How developed is the Javalang package? Will it be sufficient to represent the AST or will you need to work there? Aaron Meurer On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 8:16 PM Gajjar Smit <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello everyone, > I am Smit Gajjar, a third year undergraduate student pursuing Computer > Engineering at LD College of Engineering, Ahmedabad, India. > > I have been exploring sympy since last year by reading codebase, trying out > examples as well as solving issues recently. I am looking forward to > contribute to sympy through a GSOC project, if I am lucky enough. I have been > using Python, C++ for 3 years in contests and projects as well as Java for 4 > years in school and college practicals and mini-projects. > > I am highly motivated to work towards creating a Java language Parser, which > would convert a Java code to corresponding Sympy code. I went through the > codebase of C and Fortran Parser under the parsing module(implemented by > Nikhil Maan last year). I thoroughly read it and tried to grasp how it works. > > I believe, I can do the same for Java language, since I am quite comfortable > with Java. I am currently revising the concepts of parser and lexer from our > college curriculum of System Programming, Theory of Computation and Compiler > Design and also working on examples involving javalang pip package and > antlr4, which would make it possible. > > (Overview: C Parser converts C syntax to AST using Clang(external optional > dependency) and Fortran Parser converts Fortran syntax to ASR using > lfortran(external optional dependency). After that, Sympy's own Codegen is > responsible to generate Sympy syntax from AST or ASR. Similar will be case > for Java.) > > Lastly, my question is: Is it okay to carry this forward? If it is, then is > there any other documentation/codebase/issues I should go through to better > familiarize myself with the current status of parsing module? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sympy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/408dfc2b-9780-4bd9-820a-00fdad6f9ccf%40googlegroups.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAKgW%3D6KY7b-wYyjW8s-pHdEAUnvX-%3DAfZ4U7norAjMZbFuYUkQ%40mail.gmail.com.
