Re: Are Google summer of code 2006 ideas still available?

[Hans Aberg]

On 20 Mar 2007, at 11:28, Evan Lavelle wrote:

> There's another idea for more language back-ends. Antlr has lots of  
> back-ends, maintained by different people. However, the back-ends  
> can be of low quality, and they're normally produced long after  
> updates to the base code. I'm not saying that more language support  
> is a bad idea, but I think you need to think carefully about how  
> they're all going to be maintained.

One idea I have, is to create a core language with the possibility to  
translate into several languages. The point is that the parser needs  
a rather limited set of language features. This is still, though, not  
a very easy one.

  Hans Aberg