On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 6:51 PM, Ben Batha <[email protected]> wrote: > I was also interested in the Java compiler and had similar questions about > starting resources. Specifically I was wondering what language was intended > for the Java on Parrot project to be written in?
It is fairly open ended. In terms of the compiler, we do have a preference for languages to be implemented in themselves (since most people interested in Java will likely be able to understand a compiler written in Java, or a parser generator common for Java, such as ANTLR). Failing that, we have a preference that the compiler implementation language be hosted on Parrot (this avoids dependency issues). In terms of the runtime, I think it is unreasonable to expect a student to implement anything even approaching a useful subset of the Java runtime library in a summer. I recommend adapting an existing open source implementation of this. That would still leave a little bit of glue to be written, which can be done in any Parrot-hosted language that suits you. Good candidates include Winxed and PIR. > Thanks, > Ben Batha > [email protected] > Computer Science > University of Rochester _______________________________________________ http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev
