Re: Q: Intermediate code for interpreting & compiling?

>I am programming a language that will act much like smalltalk,
>namely, that it will be incrementally compiled into some form of
>intermediate code that will later be compiled OR interpreted.
>[so what should I use for an intermediate language?]


If you want to get it up and going fast, I would suggest using a subset
of an existing language. For the stack based system you could use Forth
( now that there is an ANS standard, it should be quite portable) and for
a lisp like notation I would use Scheme or a subset of Scheme.


While I like forth, scheme might be a better choice since there is a lot of
literature on how to optimize it. If you want a typed notation, you could
use ml, but I don't know of any truely small implementations.


By choosing an existing language, you can work more on your front end, and
then if you wish, optimize the code generator/interpreter, or wait for
some one to do it for you.
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Carl
zmola@cicero.spc.uchicago.edu
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