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

[Hans Aberg]

On 30 Mar 2007, at 17:21, Akim Demaille wrote:

> > 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.

I am not speaking about the LALR(1) part of Bison, but the part that  
writes the already computed part into a parser in a computer  
language, such as C, C++, Java, Scheme, Haskell, etc. It is not so  
difficult to do such a language, in effect, it is already in the  
pseudo-language description of the push-down automation that the  
parser uses.

  Hans Aberg