Re: Implementation Language Choice

"Basile Starynkevitch \[news\]" <basile-news@starynkevitch.net>
13 Feb 2004 23:53:45 -0500

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From: "Basile Starynkevitch \[news\]" <basile-news@starynkevitch.net>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 13 Feb 2004 23:53:45 -0500
Organization: http://starynkevitch.net - Ours
References: 04-02-109
Keywords: design
Posted-Date: 13 Feb 2004 23:53:45 EST

Le 12-02-2004, Kevin Albrecht <kevin@albrecht.net> a écrit :
> I am an experienced compiler/interpreter writer, but have always
> written my compilers in C/C++ so far. As almost everyone will admit,
> C/C++ are hardly ideal languages. [...]
>
> The following features are important to me in a choice for a better
> implementation language:
>
> * mature compiler(s) that produces native-code binaries
> * open source - preferable, but not 100% necessary


Ocaml fits the bill and has been used in several compiler-like related
projects. If you are interested to implement a compiler for some
variant of C, you might reuse part of CIL.


      see www.ocaml.org or caml.inria.fr for OCAML


      see http://manju.cs.berkeley.edu/cil/ for CIL


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