Re: [fonc] yet another meta compiler compiler

2013-02-09 Thread Kjell Godo
What will this book be called? I would like to get one when it comes out. Why do you always start with C? Why not start with a higher language like Smalltalk? You could compile ByteArrays that could then run fast. Wouldn't it be more self documenting? You would have access to all the

Re: [fonc] yet another meta compiler compiler

2013-02-09 Thread Charles Perkins
C? Where? I do admit to using Python for semantic productions. Python is terse and it was helpful to be able to pass tuples around. That said, I do not think that C is bad. One nice thing about C is its very lack of a helpful runtime. its up to you to supply that however you want. That is of

Re: [fonc] yet another meta compiler compiler

2013-02-09 Thread Julian Leviston
Borglisp, hey? Sounds like Ometa to me. Julian On 10/02/2013, at 6:27 AM, Kjell Godo squeakl...@gmail.com wrote: What will this book be called? I would like to get one when it comes out. Why do you always start with C? Why not start with a higher language like Smalltalk? You could