[antlr-interest] draft Mantra language proposal
Terence Parr
parrt at cs.usfca.edu
Tue Mar 28 17:44:20 PST 2006
On Mar 28, 2006, at 5:05 PM, Jan Mikkelsen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Terence Parr wrote:
>> I have much of the following proposal implemented for Mantra:
>> http://www.linguamantra.org/
>> It will serve as a tutorial for ANTLR v3 once I get it cleaned up
>> as it uses about everything :)
>
> Interesting.
>
> Is this intended to run on top of existing JVMs, or have its own
> execution environment?
Yes, just a source to source translator to Java...
> Is the point to have some kind of access to existing Java stuff
> without having to deal with the Java language?
Correct. I'm tired of casting out of data structures etc...
> (otherwise you'd just use Ruby or Python.)
Well, i like static types for humans and for speed. I don't like
Ruby syntax and I think Python has limited closures. I also like
types as I said. Hence, Mantra. :)
The file extension is ".om" for "oooohhhhmmmm" (you know, like a
mantra chant). :)
> Or is there some other point that I've missed?
You are correct :)
It will also be a great v3 demo/tutorial.
Ter
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