Re: Who is compiling Eu, and why?
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Jan 30, 2015
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So is the compiler to be frozen at v4.0.5 or v4.1.0?
Neither. There are no plans to do this. The translator will not be frozen.
Then you are saying there will be no changes to OE, unless those changes can be compiled also.
Like I said before, it depends on the feature in question.
Which means anyone hacking the interpreter to add a feature must also be fluent in C,
This is the case anyways, unless the feature can be made solely in the parser/scanner. Even if we dropped the translator completely, one must generally still be fluent in C to add features to the interpreter.
in order to prove the feature can be translated.
Actually, and somewhat surprisingly, the answer to this is no. Typically one of the other devs (such as mattlewis) will step in here and implement the translator specific pieces once someone else had added the feature to the C backend interpreter.
My hope was to make OE more accessable to the people who program in Euphoria.
A laudable goal, but unfortunately unrealistic. One is better off hacking at Phix for this I think.
So Karl,
Is he still around? I don't recall anything from him since 2006.
