From: Luke A. Guest <laguest@archeia.com>
Subject: Re: Studying and Maintaining GNAT, Is There Any Interest in a New Group?
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2018 07:18:32 +0100
Date: 2018-08-29T07:18:32+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1230377626.557216184.473076.laguest-archeia.com@nntp.aioe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87y3cpdgds.fsf@nightsong.com
Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:
>> Fitting OO into a compiler design could very easily turn into a nightmare of
>> required overriding routines, making it very painful to add new kinds of
>> nodes.
>
> I agree with this from a different perspective. I greatly enjoyed
> Andrew Appel's book "Modern Compiler Implementation in ML" and based on
> it, if I were to try writing a compiler for real, I'm quite sure I'd use
> a functional-programming approach if possible, probably in Haskell or
> maybe Idris, though ML is of course possible too. People interested in
> writing compilers should check out the book.
>
I have the C version of that book, bought before I got into Ada. I can see
how FP languages help in the construction of the front end of a compiler,
but forcing FP on the rest of the compiler where you’re not doing tree
walking, I’m not so sure.
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2018-08-25 12:27 Studying and Maintaining GNAT, Is There Any Interest in a New Group? patrick
2018-08-25 13:56 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-08-25 16:00 ` patrick
2018-08-25 16:16 ` Luke A. Guest
2018-08-25 17:42 ` patrick
2018-08-25 19:25 ` Simon Wright
2018-08-25 20:24 ` patrick
2018-08-25 21:48 ` Luke A. Guest
2018-08-25 21:53 ` patrick
2018-08-25 22:05 ` Luke A. Guest
2018-08-26 19:54 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-08-26 20:14 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-08-26 22:52 ` Lucretia
2018-08-27 2:38 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-08-27 14:46 ` Lucretia
2018-08-27 15:42 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-08-27 21:27 ` Randy Brukardt
2018-08-28 7:26 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-08-29 0:16 ` Randy Brukardt
2018-08-29 8:20 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-08-29 21:43 ` Randy Brukardt
2018-08-30 7:55 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-08-30 23:25 ` Randy Brukardt
2018-08-31 8:48 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-08-31 22:42 ` Randy Brukardt
2018-09-02 8:02 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-09-04 22:18 ` Randy Brukardt
2018-08-29 3:02 ` Paul Rubin
2018-08-29 6:18 ` Luke A. Guest [this message]
2018-08-29 19:00 ` Paul Rubin
2018-08-30 5:54 ` Luke A. Guest
2018-08-30 6:29 ` Paul Rubin
2018-08-27 21:18 ` Randy Brukardt
2018-08-27 9:37 ` Simon Wright
2018-08-27 16:54 ` Bill Findlay
2018-08-27 17:42 ` Shark8
2018-08-31 21:23 ` Robert A Duff
2018-08-31 22:51 ` Randy Brukardt
2018-09-01 19:42 ` Robert A Duff
2018-09-02 8:04 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-09-02 10:11 ` AdaMagica
2018-09-02 12:10 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2018-09-02 14:30 ` AdaMagica
2018-09-04 22:05 ` Randy Brukardt
2018-09-01 7:41 ` Simon Wright
2018-09-01 17:27 ` Bill Findlay
2018-08-27 17:35 ` Shark8
2018-08-25 21:17 ` Luke A. Guest
2018-08-25 23:16 ` Paul Rubin
2018-08-26 8:03 ` Rene
2018-08-26 10:09 ` Simon Wright
2018-08-25 16:43 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2018-08-25 17:38 ` patrick
2018-08-25 17:39 ` Luke A. Guest
2018-08-25 17:45 ` patrick
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