[Gm2] Modula-2 with Cocoa and/or GNUstep?

[Gaius Mulley]

posted on behalf of Bee Kay:

> Hi
> 
> I would like to know if anybody is doing or thinking of doing any 
> work to integrate Modula-2 with Cocoa and/or GNUstep?
> 
> I could imagine something like an M2/ObjC bridge such as the Python 
> ObjC bridge "PyObjC", although this may be rather difficult due to 
> the fact that M2 is statically typed. Has anybody been looking at this at all?
> Any experiences to share? Any code fragments left over, even if abandoned?
> 
> I was thinking myself about whether or not it would make sense to 
> craft a new "dialect" derived from Modula-2 in the exact same way 
> that Objective-C was derived from C. In other words bolt on a Smalltalk
> based message  passing syntax and leave the language otherwise as it is.
> Initially this could be realised in form of a preprocessor that would 
> translate
> "Objective Modula-2" into Objective-C. Later on, it could evolve into a GCC 
> front-end, possibly drawing from the work done on GNU Modula-2.
> 
> Anybody interested to explore this further?
> 
> rgds
> bk