> ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jos...@codesourcery.com> > To: Levon Haykazyan <le...@rock.com> > Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org > Subject: Re: Oberon-2 front-end as a GSoC project > Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2011 11:14:05 +0000 (UTC) > > > On Sun, 3 Apr 2011, Levon Haykazyan wrote: > > > Is there an interest in the community in a new front-end? > > In general I encourage the addition of front ends for real languages (ones > used for real programming, as opposed to ones used solely for being > arcane, as examples, etc.) as long as someone is willing to maintain them > in the GCC tree (update them as needed for changes to the rest of GCC, > etc.) in accordance with GCC's coding standards. This applies both to > existing out-of-tree front ends such as Pascal and D, and to new front > ends. > > For a new front end I would encourage implementing it in the way chosen > for Ada, Fortran and to a lesser extent Go, where most of the front end > uses its own datastructures to represent the program and the part > converting to GCC's language-independent representation is self-contained > rather than spread around the front end. > > -- > Joseph S. Myers > jos...@codesourcery.com
> Hi Joseph, Thank you for the replay and for the implementation suggestions. Would you classify Oberon-2 as a real programming language? On one hand it was certainly designed with minimalism in mind (the language definition is only 20 pages), on the other hand it was designed and has been used for real programming (though mostly by a relatively narrow community). I am definitely willing to maintain the front-end, though at this point you have nothing but my word to take for it. Kind regards, Levon -- You Rock! Your E-Mail Should Too! Signup Now at Rock.com and get 2GB of Storage! http://connections.rock.com/user/displayUserRegisterPage.kickAction?as=116748&STATUS=MAIN
