Re: Selfbootstrapping compilers (Was: faq)

2002-11-24 Thread Simon Cozens
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brent Dax) writes: We have to--otherwise we can't have the self-modifying parser Larry desperately wants. That's funny. I wondered precisely why I'd been working on self-modifying parsers in C. -- 10. The Earth quakes and the heavens rattle; the beasts of nature flock

Re: Selfbootstrapping compilers (Was: faq)

2002-11-14 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 3:09 PM +0530 11/14/02, Gopal V wrote: If the Parrot team can provide a current and working perl6c.pbc for the compiler written in perl6 , it's cool with me ... But I've seen that idea fail quite a few times when the published binary falls out of sync with the runtime ... Well that's just

Selfbootstrapping compilers (Was: faq)

2002-11-13 Thread Gopal V
If memory serves me right, Markus Laire wrote: Miniparrot can then be used to build everything else, including full parrot, perl6, other parrot-supported languaged, etc.. This 2nd step might be e.g. Bytecode-compiled perl6-program which is simple enough to work with miniparrot. Please for

RE: Selfbootstrapping compilers (Was: faq)

2002-11-13 Thread Brent Dax
Gopal V: # If memory serves me right, Markus Laire wrote: # Miniparrot can then be used to build everything else, including full # parrot, perl6, other parrot-supported languaged, etc.. # # This 2nd step might be e.g. Bytecode-compiled perl6-program which is # simple enough to work with

Re: Selfbootstrapping compilers (Was: faq)

2002-11-13 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 08:25:52AM -0800, Brent Dax wrote: Gopal V: # If memory serves me right, Markus Laire wrote: # Miniparrot can then be used to build everything else, including full # parrot, perl6, other parrot-supported languaged, etc.. # # This 2nd step might be e.g.

Re: Selfbootstrapping compilers (Was: faq)

2002-11-13 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 5:16 PM +0530 11/13/02, Gopal V wrote: If memory serves me right, Markus Laire wrote: Miniparrot can then be used to build everything else, including full parrot, perl6, other parrot-supported languaged, etc.. This 2nd step might be e.g. Bytecode-compiled perl6-program which is simple