Re: Oberon-2 front-end as a GSoC project

2011-04-07 Thread Levon Haykazyan
> - Original Message - > From: Basile Starynkevitch > To: "Levon Haykazyan" > Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org > Subject: Re: Oberon-2 front-end as a GSoC project > Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 21:19:05 +0200 > > > On Wed, 06 Apr 2011 19:07:26 + > "

Re: Oberon-2 front-end as a GSoC project

2011-04-06 Thread Joseph S. Myers
On Wed, 6 Apr 2011, Basile Starynkevitch wrote: > On Wed, 6 Apr 2011 20:49:32 +0500 > "Levon Haykazyan" wrote: > > Thank you for your answer. I though I should ask GSoC related questions > > here. Anyhow, I am interested, and for me that's enough to implement it. > > But I decided to write the en

Re: Oberon-2 front-end as a GSoC project

2011-04-06 Thread Basile Starynkevitch
On Wed, 06 Apr 2011 19:07:26 + "Levon Haykazyan" wrote: [citing me Basile] > > > > You probably could write the front-end part of your compiler in Oberon, > > and generate Gimple representation (perhaps even in textual form, since > > some people are working on a Gimple "front-end"). You then

Re: Oberon-2 front-end as a GSoC project

2011-04-06 Thread Levon Haykazyan
> - Original Message - > From: Basile Starynkevitch > To: "Levon Haykazyan" > Cc: "Ian Lance Taylor" , gcc@gcc.gnu.org > Subject: Re: Oberon-2 front-end as a GSoC project > Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 18:57:00 +0200 > > > On Wed, 6 Apr

Re: Oberon-2 front-end as a GSoC project

2011-04-06 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
"Levon Haykazyan" writes: >> "Levon Haykazyan" writes: >> >> > Since I didn't get much feedback, I concluded that this idea does not >> > interest anybody. So I will not pursue this any further. >> >> To be honest, you are asking the wrong set of people. Today, gcc does >> not support Oberon-

Re: Oberon-2 front-end as a GSoC project

2011-04-06 Thread Basile Starynkevitch
On Wed, 6 Apr 2011 20:49:32 +0500 "Levon Haykazyan" wrote: > Thank you for your answer. I though I should ask GSoC related questions > here. Anyhow, I am interested, and for me that's enough to implement it. > But I decided to write the entire compiler from scratch. I couldn't > resist writing a c

Re: Oberon-2 front-end as a GSoC project

2011-04-06 Thread Levon Haykazyan
> - Original Message - > From: Ian Lance Taylor > To: "Levon Haykazyan" > Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org > Subject: Re: Oberon-2 front-end as a GSoC project > Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2011 06:25:34 -0700 > > > "Levon Haykazyan" writes: > > >

Re: Oberon-2 front-end as a GSoC project

2011-04-06 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
"Levon Haykazyan" writes: > Since I didn't get much feedback, I concluded that this idea does not > interest anybody. So I will not pursue this any further. To be honest, you are asking the wrong set of people. Today, gcc does not support Oberon-2. So the people who develop gcc today are not v

Re: Oberon-2 front-end as a GSoC project

2011-04-06 Thread Levon Haykazyan
> - Original Message - > From: "Levon Haykazyan" > To: gcc@gcc.gnu.org > Subject: Oberon-2 front-end as a GSoC project > Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2011 15:01:08 +0500 > > > Hi all, > > I want to propose to implement Oberon-2 front-end to gcc on GSoC

Re: Oberon-2 front-end as a GSoC project

2011-04-03 Thread Joseph S. Myers
On Sun, 3 Apr 2011, Levon Haykazyan wrote: > 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 Yes, I think it would be considered real. The sort of languages for which I wouldn't want front ends int

Re: Oberon-2 front-end as a GSoC project

2011-04-03 Thread Levon Haykazyan
> - Original Message - > From: "Joseph S. Myers" > To: Levon Haykazyan > Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org > Subject: Re: Oberon-2 front-end as a GSoC project > Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2011 11:14:05 + (UTC) > > > On Sun, 3 Apr 2011, Levon Haykazyan wrote: > &

Re: Oberon-2 front-end as a GSoC project

2011-04-03 Thread Joseph S. Myers
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

Oberon-2 front-end as a GSoC project

2011-04-03 Thread Levon Haykazyan
Hi all, I want to propose to implement Oberon-2 front-end to gcc on GSoC. I know that Oberon-2 is not the most popular language today, but probably there would be some interest in it. I would like to ask some feedback on this idea. Is there an interest in the community in a new front-end? Is the