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Re: A FrontEnd in C++?

Fergus Henderson wrote:

> (Actually, I should

also include Fortran in that list -- but who'd want to write compilers
or interpreters in Fortran? ;-)
Why not ? Fortran 2000, the upcoming Standard, includes C interoperability, so it shouldn't even be hard to couple the frontend written in Fortran to the middle end written in C.

Perhaps we just do not see the problem in using C to write a compiler (and forgo the difficulties of providing a bootstrap compiler).

It's just a question of restricting yourself to the safe parts of the language (e.g., don't divide by a negative integer, etc.)

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