From: "Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>
Subject: Re: The Hobby Lobby was Windows CE?
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 13:28:21 -0400
Date: 2001-09-28T17:28:21+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9p2bvl$ika$1@nh.pace.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3BB49C07.D7F16D45@lmtas.lmco.com
To some extent, you sort of get this with Gnat/gcc. The Gnat compiler will
also process C code for you without modification. The gcc compiler has a
multitude of front ends (see http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/gcc.html) which
includes support for C, C++, Objective C, Chill, Fortran, and Java. Front
ends exist for Pascal, Mercury, Cobol and Modula-2 as well.
The problem is, of course, getting any/all of these front ends together in
the same place at the same time and making a binary that will recognize
whatever language you want to compile. In principle, it could be done, but
in practice I don't think anyone has. I don't know why this is. Too
difficult? No interest? Insufficient utility?
I agree that it would be nice to have a single, multi-lingual compiler that
would let one take advantage of whatever software is availble. Got
number-crunching code in Fortran and GUI code in C++ and multi-tasking code
in Ada and want to bundle them all together to make a system? No problem!
Here's the compiler for you! But for whatever reasons, it just hasn't been
done.
MDC
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"Gary Scott" <Gary.L.Scott@lmtas.lmco.com> wrote in message
news:3BB49C07.D7F16D45@lmtas.lmco.com...
>
> What I would like to see is a package product containing several
> compilers (i.e. single development environment, choose the language that
> fits the problem/user/whim) of for example C++, Fortran, and Ada (and
> possibly PASCAL/Delphi, although Ada should satifisfy that need well).
> If this included a decent cross-platform GUI development library, then
> the development environment could be written using that library,
> creating a similar development environment on each platform. This would
> also allow the creation of a wide variety of applications that are
> source compatible across platforms (thinking general purpose
> computing). If you could package 3 compilers with GINO for example,
> you'd have an extremly powerful development tool set. In addition, all
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Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-09-19 10:30 Windows CE? John McCabe
2001-09-20 14:56 ` Robert Dewar
2001-09-21 9:30 ` John McCabe
2001-09-21 14:13 ` Stephen Leake
2001-09-21 15:01 ` John McCabe
2001-09-22 4:12 ` Robert Dewar
2001-09-22 6:59 ` Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.
2001-09-22 12:21 ` Robert Dewar
2001-09-22 13:41 ` Samuel Tardieu
2001-09-24 14:55 ` Marin David Condic
2001-09-24 18:13 ` The Hobby Lobby was " Richard Riehle
2001-09-24 18:55 ` Marin David Condic
2001-09-25 10:49 ` John McCabe
2001-09-25 14:27 ` Marin David Condic
2001-09-25 16:41 ` Wes Groleau
2001-09-26 12:56 ` John McCabe
2001-09-26 16:50 ` Wes Groleau
2001-09-26 18:17 ` Ted Dennison
2001-09-26 19:13 ` tmoran
2001-09-26 19:39 ` Wes Groleau
2001-09-26 19:49 ` Ted Dennison
2001-09-26 19:55 ` Marin David Condic
2001-09-26 21:17 ` Ted Dennison
2001-09-27 13:44 ` Marin David Condic
2001-09-27 15:07 ` Gary Scott
2001-09-27 15:37 ` Marin David Condic
2001-09-28 13:23 ` Ted Dennison
2001-09-28 13:45 ` Marin David Condic
2001-09-30 14:28 ` Nils Kassube
2001-10-01 1:42 ` Gary Scott
2001-10-01 14:14 ` Marin David Condic
2001-10-01 15:05 ` Nils Kassube
2001-09-29 3:10 ` Robert Dewar
2001-09-28 15:49 ` Gary Scott
2001-09-28 17:28 ` Marin David Condic [this message]
2001-09-28 19:27 ` David Starner
2001-10-01 14:23 ` Marin David Condic
2001-10-12 21:01 ` Stefan Skoglund
2001-10-13 1:43 ` David Starner
2001-09-28 15:56 ` Chad Robert Meiners
2001-09-28 17:33 ` Marin David Condic
2001-09-28 20:28 ` Aristophon
2001-09-28 20:15 ` Pascal Obry
2001-09-28 22:30 ` GNAT ftp sites/mirrors ... was:The Hobby Lobby Aristophon
2001-09-29 3:09 ` Robert Dewar
2001-09-29 18:34 ` The Hobby Lobby was Windows CE? Chad R. Meiners
2001-09-27 7:13 ` Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.
2001-09-27 13:51 ` DuckE
2001-09-30 23:17 ` Richard Riehle
2001-09-26 2:18 ` Robert Dewar
2001-09-26 4:52 ` David Botton
2001-09-28 1:15 ` Robert Dewar
2001-09-26 12:56 ` John McCabe
2001-09-28 1:20 ` Robert Dewar
2001-09-28 8:33 ` John McCabe
2001-09-28 14:07 ` Marin David Condic
2001-09-28 15:12 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-09-28 15:35 ` Marin David Condic
2001-09-28 15:50 ` John McCabe
2001-09-24 20:28 ` David Botton
2001-09-24 21:42 ` Richard Riehle
2001-09-24 23:22 ` David Botton
2001-09-21 14:59 ` Ted Dennison
2001-09-24 9:16 ` John McCabe
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