From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,7b5615402713dcbb X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.66.80.166 with SMTP id s6mr2900112pax.30.1346142676211; Tue, 28 Aug 2012 01:31:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.224.176.203 with SMTP id bf11mr8475445qab.4.1346142676026; Tue, 28 Aug 2012 01:31:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.236.87.71 with SMTP id x47mr1064124yhe.6.1346142676008; Tue, 28 Aug 2012 01:31:16 -0700 (PDT) Path: a5ni18361pbv.0!nntp.google.com!news1.google.com!r1no2179146qas.0!news-out.google.com!da15ni36163658qab.0!nntp.google.com!r1no2179129qas.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 01:31:15 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=83.150.124.2; posting-account=QrZwxQoAAAByl3YAWTpexAk3yBYyZMHn NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.150.124.2 References: <8bfbf709-18ac-43cd-b037-ce47adde96c2@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Ada and Java/C++ From: kalvin.news@gmail.com Injection-Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 08:31:16 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: 2012-08-28T01:31:15-07:00 List-Id: tiistai, 28. elokuuta 2012 9.57.40 UTC+3 Shark8 kirjoitti: > But on a more serious note; it might be interesting to build a [basically= mufti-lingual] compiler that could, say, take a grammar and a source and c= ompile the source. {Yeah, that'd be kinda like GCC, with all it's front-end= s.} Then you could inexpensively try out different grammars until you find = your Ada/C hybrid. This is an excellent suggestion. In that way one could prototype with the i= deas and see what works and what doesn't.