OpenEuphoria

Re: GtkLib

• Posted by Peter Lawrence <peterl at NETLINK.COM.AU> Aug 22, 1999
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>Pete wrote:
>
>>I haven't touched Peu since Eu Linux came out...
>> I'd much rather code in Euphoria than code
>> Euphoria in C.
>
>Gee, *that* sounds familiar. A couple of months, I started coding Gnuphoria
>again, but wrote it in a small subset of Euphoria that I could convert to C.
>I guess if we really loved C that much, we wouldn't be coding in Euphoria,
>would we?
>
>>I am still interested in writing Euphoria
>> interpreters and compilers.
>
>Good!
>
>> I have some thoughts on how to convert Euphoria
>> to native machine code, for a real compiler, and that
>> the compiler might be able to be written in Euphoria,
>> making it a just-in-time compiler.
>
>I've toyed around with compiling to a Euphoria virtual machine. To a large
>extent, Robert's already written on. Think of machine_proc and machine_func
>as defining some of the core methods, along with sequence manipulation
>operations (create, clone, dereference, destroy, append, prepend, insert)
>and you've got the core language.
>
>These calls (written in C) would then be glued together by an interpreter,
>which would convert Euphoria into C/assembly/Java bytecodes/Euphoria
>bytecodes/whatever.

After reading this, I thought people might be interested in a recent posting
of mine to comp.lang.forth:-

'I'm considering writing a Euphoria to Forth cascader, both for practice in
Euphoria and to increase Euphoria's portability (and because the underlying
VM sounds quite close to Forth). "Euphorth"?'

BTW, Forth provides a virtual memory feature in most implementations, which
would also help. A "true" compiler could go one extra level, generating
Forth to put into an assembler skeleton, the way Eforth does - that's
intended to increase the Forth portability even further, by piggybacking on
whichever assemblers are available. PML.
GST+NPT=JOBS

I.e., a Goods and Services Tax (or almost any other broad based production
tax), with a Negative Payroll Tax, promotes employment.

See http://users.netlink.com.au/~peterl/publicns.html#AFRLET2 and the other
items on that page for some reasons why.