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Re: New Frontend
On Tuesday 16 March 2010 12:43:42 pm Steve Teale wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 12:14 -0400, Varol Okan wrote:
> > Ouch,
> >
> > looking on how to get started with writing a front end ( or modifying an
> > existing one I found this snippet :
> > -----------
> > I agree with you, Tom. There comes a point where maintaining an example
> > front-end to aid developers comes at a greater expense than just helping
> > the developers of new front-ends (or improving the documentation).
> > ------------
> >
> > So here is my question, where can I find documentation about creating a
> > front- end which is up-to-date. It seems
> > http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7884 ( from 2005 ) is a good start
> > though I don't know how valid this 5 year old information is.
> >
> > Ditto for
> > http://tldp.org/HOWTO/GCC-Frontend-HOWTO.html ( from 2002 )
> >
> > My goal for this project would be to modify C++ to allow easier
> > multi-threaded programming, add garbage collection, utilize a runtime
> > environment which should handle scheduling, and thread pools,
> > communications etc. and make all of this as logically suitable as
> > possible. Oh and it should be all integral part of the programming
> > language.
> >
> > I know that none of my ideas is new but some one has to put it all
> > together, so why not me.
> >
> > So I guess I am asking for advice on how to best go about doing this
> > while avoiding 'old' information, which is widespread throughout the
> > Internet.
> >
> > Thanks for the/any advice up front.
> >
> > Varol :)
>
> Have you looked at D?
>
> Steve
>
Yep, downloaded it this am and started to look into it though it is a lot to
start with. That's why I wanted to look into a simple example and play a bit
up-front.
Thank you for the recommendation though.
Varol :)