OpenEuphoria

Re: Front End? (Was: Re: async problem)

• Posted by EUPHORiCK <euphoric at cklester.com> Dec 29, 2003
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Robert Craig wrote:

>
> C. K. Lester wrote:
>
>> Could I get more info on this "front-end" thingie? I still don't know
>> what that's all about.
>
> By "front-end", I mean Euphoria's scanner, parser
> and Intermediate Language (IL) emitter. I'm rewriting
> all that in Euphoria itself. It's currently all written in C.
> By "back_end", I mean the engine that executes the IL,
> or, in the case of the Translator, the code that translates
> the IL into C. The translator back-end will also be rewritten
> from C into Euphoria. Only the interpreter back-end
> and Translator libraries will remain in C.

What I really want to know is, "What does it mean for the end user?"
Will I notice any difference in how I currently develop programs, or is
all this going to be changes behind the scenes?

I read that prior blurb of Dec. 5th, but didn't quite understand all of
it except to determine that there's a-changes a-comin'!!! :)