Re: [WIP 0/8] Algol 68 GCC Front-End

2025-02-05 Thread Jose E. Marchesi
> Hi José! > > I intend to provide a few comments to specific code changes that I might > have some clue about, later on -- "my later"; ask my wife what span of > time that might mean... ;-) Thank you :) > > In the following, so far, just a few high-level comments: > > > On 2025-01-01T03:09:44

Re: [WIP 0/8] Algol 68 GCC Front-End

2025-02-05 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi José! I intend to provide a few comments to specific code changes that I might have some clue about, later on -- "my later"; ask my wife what span of time that might mean... ;-) In the following, so far, just a few high-level comments: On 2025-01-01T03:09:44+0100, "Jose E. Marchesi" wrot

GCC Steering Committee attention, Re: [WIP 0/8] Algol 68 GCC Front-End

2025-02-05 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi GCC Steering Committee! Please consider accepting into GCC this new -- old? ;-) -- Algol 68 front end (awaiting conclusion of the ongoing technical review), and appointing José as its maintainer. (At FOSDEM last weekend, we were briefly discussing this contribution, and I offered to raise and

Re: [WIP 0/8] Algol 68 GCC Front-End

2025-01-02 Thread Jose E. Marchesi
> As to where to host the project, the obvious choice is perhaps a > project at sourceware, but it would be nice if we could develop the > front-end in a branch in the GCC git repo, to have a mailing list > under gcc.gnu.org and to use a page in the GCC wiki to track the FE > progress... please l

[WIP 0/8] Algol 68 GCC Front-End

2024-12-31 Thread Jose E. Marchesi
Hello people, happy GNU year! This WIP is a GCC front-end for Algol 68, the fascinating, generally poorly understood and often vilified programming language. It is common knowledge that Algol 68 was well ahead of its time back when it was introduced, and anyone who knows the language well will su