[antlr-interest] ok, will build an LLVM example for book

[J. Stephen Riley Silber]

I think Waverly's point wasn't the complexity of the grammar of the language.  No one is arguing the simplicity of the Smalltalk grammar.  His point was that compiling a simple imperative language to LLVM will demonstrate the basics of LLVM IL generation.  "Everyone knows C", so it should make for a relatively simple tutorial.

I know nothing about LLVM besides what's on its project homepage, but I am confident that a C subset example will allow me to ramp up quickly to the point where I could implement "advanced" features such as dynamic dispatch in short order.

Ter, consider this a hearty seconding of Waverly's suggestion.  It's a great idea.

--- On Wed, 6/24/09, Damien Cassou <damien.cassou at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Damien Cassou <damien.cassou at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [antlr-interest] ok, will build an LLVM example for book
To: "Edwards, Waverly" <Waverly.Edwards at genesys.com>
Cc: "antlr-interest at antlr.org ANTLR" <antlr-interest at antlr.org>
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 2009, 9:47 AM

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Edwards,
Waverly<Waverly.Edwards at genesys.com> wrote:
> A Smalltalk or Java type language subset might be nice but overly complex, possibly
> loosing your reader.

The entire Smalltalk language represents no more than 17 AST nodes. I
don't consider that overly complex.

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