Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_...@web.de> writes: > Joshua Branson <jbra...@fastmail.com> writes: > >> Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_...@web.de> writes: >> >>> Joshua Branson <jbra...@fastmail.com> writes: >>> >>>>> The common lisp bindings had some pretty nifty tools, so you might find >>>>> inspiration there. You can make a lot of difference with relatively >>>>> little effort. >>>> >>>> Can you elaborate? Do you mean I can make a lot of difference by >>>> writing translators in python or lisp? Or do you mean I can make a lot >>>> of difference...how exactly? haha >>> >>> I mean you can make a lot of difference by writing translators, in the >>> language you choose. >> >> Oh really? I was under the impression that only translators written in >> C are helpful at this point. I thought that writing translators written >> in other languages was too brittle. > > That just depends on the quality of the bindings you create. Though I’m > not fully up to date: My information is ~7 years old.
Oh ok. I hadn't thought about creating bindings for other languages. The Hurd wiki mentions that in an ideal world, one would create a way to write translators in a high level language, but not use the current Hurd C bindings. If you do that, then the translators can be written in more flexible ways. > > Best wishes, > Arne
