Mark Janssen <dreamingforw...@gmail.com> writes: >> No its not like those 'compilers' i dont really agree with a compiler >> generating C/C++ and saying its producing native code. I dont really believe >> its truely within the statement. Compilers that do that tend to put in alot >> of type saftey code and debugging internals at a high level to get things >> working in other projects i am not saying python compilers here i havent >> analysed enough to say this. > > Hmm, well what I'd personally find interesting from a computer science > point of view is a app that will take a language specification in BNF > (complete with keywords and all) and output C code which is then > compiled to an executable as normal. This is how a front-end should > be designed. A middle-layer for translating common language elements > like lists, sets, etc, could make it easy.
A language specification in BNF is just syntax. It doesn't say anything about semantics. So how could this be used to produce executable C code for a program? BNF is used to produce parsers. But a parser isn't sufficient. -- Piet van Oostrum <p...@vanoostrum.org> WWW: http://pietvanoostrum.com/ PGP key: [8DAE142BE17999C4] -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
