[antlr-interest] cool idea

[mzukowski at yci.com]

Microsoft Research has been exploring that under the guise of "intentional
programming."  There are other projects out there in academia which strive
for the same sort of thing.  When you get into the details it is incredibly
hard to smooth everything over into a common AST grammar.  Not that I want
to keep you from trying it out....

Monty

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> I had an idea last night, It sounds quite obvious
> and I had kind of feelings that It might already be
> an aim of the ANTLR project, if it is then somebody
> can give me the lowdown on the current status of
> this particular idea.
> 
> I was thinking that if somebody designed some kind
> of standard AST way to represent a program such
> that any program in any language could be represented
> by this type of AST then one could create translators
> from lots of languages to create this AST and then
> translators from the AST to lots of languages so that
> translation from any language to any language would
> be possible.
> 
> Has anyone started implementing this idea? (if it should
> be obvious to me that someone, or everyone has,
> then I apologise for my ignorance)
> 
> I am sure such a system would be very useful but perhaps
> it kind of begs one to look into more complicated reflexive
> systems such as TUNES instead..
> 
> Regards
> 
> AM
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