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Re: [Axiom-developer] Aldor and Lisp


From: Martin Rubey
Subject: Re: [Axiom-developer] Aldor and Lisp
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 11:02:26 +0200

Dear Christian,

great that you pop in -- you are not at RISC-Linz anymore, are you?

Christian Aistleitner writes:

 > I wrote that parser almost 1.5 years ago (I guess). I still have it on some
 > Backup if someone is interested. It was implemented in Aldor. I could parse
 > all source files I tested.

This is great news! I suppose, however, that it parses only the nopile syntax,
doesn't it?
 
 > However, the code is more or less worthless, as it is _not_ properly  
 > documented. 

I disagree slightly :-)

 > Nevertheless, the parser is as far as I remember complete. But if one does
 > not want to restrict oneself to implementing the compiler in Aldor, I guess
 > you'd be better of with some compiler compiler.

Am I correct that Aldor is able to compile to lisp? Then it would probably be
possible to run this Aldor parser in a Lisp image, maybe our Lisp gurus could
do some magic with this?

In fact, I know nearly nothing about compilers and interpreters. So maybe
somebody could detail here the bits and pieces needed to morph the current Spad
compiler and interpreter of Axiom into an Aldor compiler and interpreter for
Axiom?

As far as I understand, one "problem" is that the Axiom interpreter knows quite
a bit about the Algebra, to do it's type inference, which is a "must have"...

Martin







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