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'!!! :)