Re: [Oopic-compiler-devel] Testing...

[Neil D. <nd...@us...>]

Andrew Porrett wrote:
> At 02:51 AM 4/29/2004 +0100, Neil Durant wrote:
> >Just a quick test message to the new mailing list to see if it works
> >properly!  Is everyone receiving this?
> 
> Hm.  Can't speak for everyone, so I guess I shouldn't be replying...  :)

Well, using my immense powers of deduction, I can exclusively reveal that
we are all receiving!

So where do we start?  I guess Scott's revelation on the OOPic forum that
he'll give us any information we need sounds promising, and should minimise
any reverse-engineering headaches.  However we can't bank on getting full,
complete and accurate data from him, so we may have to do some digging
ourselves too.

Daniel, have you had any further thoughts from the digging work you've been
doing that you mentioned to me last week?

Also, some possible things we might want to discuss:

* What level of C language support are we aiming for?  Full ANSI C (minus
  floats etc) ?

* What other languages do we want to support?

* Do we want a mode that allows "standard" OOPic BASIC/C/JAVA to be
  compiled?
 
* What platforms do we want to support?

* What implementation language(s) do we want to use?

* Should we use a compiler compiler, such as flex/bison/lex/yacc ?

* What extra features do we want to support?

* What bugs in the existing languages do we specifically want to address?

Thoughts?

Neil
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Neil Durant
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