Re: Jiri and his 'Hints'
On Sun, 30 Apr 2000 09:15:46 +1000, Aidan Bindoff <abindoff at ONE.NET.AU>
wrote:
> A Euphoria to C translator would be a huge step towards putting Euphoria
> into the mainstream, and increasing our resource base.
>
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Hello Euphorians
I'm a Euphoria newbie, or maybe "fossil newbie" would be better, as I
program in (gulp) COBOL for a living and know nothing about C, C++,
Windows programming, or anything else invented recently. This is also my
first post to the list, so be kind 
I may be missing the point on the Eupiler issue, but I agree that a
Eu to C translator would be a big step towards the real thing. That
would definitely help move Eu closer to the mainstream. However, if
what we really want is easier access to C code, libraries, etc, why not
create a C to Eu translator and move the mainstream towards Euphoria?
On the question of 200K "hello world" programs, would it be possible to
write a sort of "half way" compiler for Eu? What I'm thinking of is
something that translates Eucode into a tokenized version (I think this
is already part of Euphoria, but forgive me if I'm wrong as I'm just a
newbie) and the tokenized code could then be executed by a version of
the existing runtime. This "pseudo-compiler" should give us some speed
improvements, as the tokenization has already happened, and will let us
run the code with a single runtime rather than embedding it into every
EXE program. Or am I being too simple-minded?
Regards
Tony (a.k.a. TriloByte, the fossil computerist)
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