Re: [open-cobol-list] future Developments, Brain Storming

[Sergey Kashyrin]

Hi Patric,

Small nuance :-)

> Since all C is valid C++ code

That's not exactly correct.
C++ is more strict, so if you simply rename .c into .cpp and try to 
compile you will get a lot of errors.
Try to do that with OC itself - good exercise :-)
And anyway you will need some changes in generation, as you need to 
explode your programs with C names and not C++ which are mangled, so you 
have to add extern "C" to generated code. Otherwise dynamic load will 
not work :-)

Regards,
Sergey

On 3/14/2013 9:20 AM, Patrick wrote:
> Hi Brian
>
> Thanks for all your great feedback.
>
> Since all C is valid C++ code, it shouldn't be so hard to rework the
> build system to compile the presently generated C code as C++. I will
> need to read up on autotools a bit but if you want me crate a modified
> build system I can?
>
> I don't know anything about the function ALL but I will read up on it
> and see if this is something I can tackle.
>
> I really like Ada but the one thing that was driven me from it to open
> Cobol is the compiler. It is about 400K lines of code. It's too much for
> me to handle. I will never understand it and that leaves me pretty much
> stuck with where Adacore wants to take the language. >10 years after
> most people moved to ARM for embedded design, Adacore is now working on
> a port. It's crazy that an embedded language can hardly be used with any
> embedded targets(as in no OS). They are moving to ARM now that their
> customer base is. If it was me, I would have done that 10 years ago so
> that I would have a larger customer base but any-who, you get the point.
> OC has a small compiler and is hackable. I think I should be able to use
> OC in most of the places that I wanted to use Ada and if I was backed
> into a corner I could probably do this autonomously.
>
> I have looked at the Vala sources. They intimated me a bit like GNAT.
> the source code seems to be about 100K lines. I would like to figure out
> what parts I could look at to see how vapigen works internally but it
> could take me some time.
>
> I like FLTK. It uses a small subset of C++. It sounds like even many
> professional "day-coders" use a subset of C++. Do you think we could use
> a very small subset of C++ to implement the 2002 features?
>
> -Patrick
>
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