A FrontEnd in C++?

[Robert Dewar]

> No.  The intrinsic complexity burden I am talking about is exclusively
> a function of the number of different languages used in the source
> tree (ignoring runtime libraries).  It doesn't matter which bits are
> written in which languages.

Mixed languages are reality in large applications these days. We deal with people
writing large (much much larger than gcc) applications in mixed languages
typically Ada C C++ and one of the great strengths of gcc is that it handles
this situation very smoothly.