Am 06.03.2021 um 22:24 schrieb Ben Bacarisse: > Mr Flibble <flib...@i42.removethisbit.co.uk> writes: > >>> Someone who says that he is capable of writing a compiler that >>> translates every language has megalomania. No one can do this. >> >> Just because you can't make one it doesn't follow that nobody else >> can. > > True, but lots of very knowledgeable people have tried and failed.
I even wonder why they have tried. Writing a universal compiler/interpreter sounds logically impossible to me, Here's a simple Python expression: >>> 3+3*5 18 And here's the same expression in (GNU) Smalltalk: st> 3+3*5 30 How would such a universal compiler know which evaluation strategy to follow, if not by writing a parser end evaluator for every supported language? And if it's hard for this simple problem, how about more complex cases. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
