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Re: Programming Language for Beginners
- From: Paul Brook <paul at codesourcery dot com>
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, sarvesh dot poonith at ifrance dot com
- Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 20:21:59 +0100
- Subject: Re: Programming Language for Beginners
- Organization: CodeSourcery
- References: <1094754849.3869.19.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Thursday 09 September 2004 19:34, Kailash Balnac wrote:
> Hi there,
> I am an undergraduate student from Mauritius and I wish to create a
> programming language for beginners as my final year project and I am
> looking forward to implement it as a GCC FrontEnd.
> I am working on RH9.0 and have installed GCC 3.4.2. I have gone through
> the GCC FrontEnd HowTo and tried to compile GCC with Sheakespeare
> Programming Language but failed with a Lang.Man error.
>
> My Question is whether there has been any changes to the approach
> adopted by SPL & the GCC FrontEnd HowTo in the GCC version 3.4.2 context
> and also I would appreciate any suggestions as per the features to
> include or not in the programming language for beginners.
It doesn't answer your question, but you might consider working with the
current development version of GCC (what will become 4.0). The interface
between a frontend and the rest of gcc is much cleaner there as a result of
the tree-ssa work.
Paul