[antlr-interest] cool idea

blah blah trigonometric at softhome.net
Fri Aug 30 10:43:44 PDT 2002


thanks

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> 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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> > From: blah blah [mailto:trigonometric at softhome.net]
> > Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 12:38 AM
> > To: antlr-interest at yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: [antlr-interest] cool idea
> >
> >
> > 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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