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

[Akim Demaille]

>>> "HA" == Hans Aberg <address@hidden> writes:

 > 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.

ISTR that initially, in the 70s, there were many such projects.  Yacc
(which name highlights that there was competition at that time) took a
different approach: be tailored for it's target language.  And it won.

Don't ask me where I read this.  I did, that's all I remember.