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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.236.141.11 with SMTP id f11mr7372418yhj.54.1395351302391; Thu, 20 Mar 2014 14:35:02 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.140.95.114 with SMTP id h105mr54234qge.22.1395351302371; Thu, 20 Mar 2014 14:35:02 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!hw13no6696497qab.1!news-out.google.com!du2ni10182qab.0!nntp.google.com!w5no6724774qac.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 14:35:02 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <5151491a-14c3-4138-bcb5-f29108aeefb9@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=2a02:120b:c3d0:1b80:3075:6454:c1c5:2a3d; posting-account=gRqrnQkAAAAC_02ynnhqGk1VRQlve6ZG NNTP-Posting-Host: 2a02:120b:c3d0:1b80:3075:6454:c1c5:2a3d References: <5151491a-14c3-4138-bcb5-f29108aeefb9@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: ANN: Kickstarter for beginning work on a new open-source Compiler From: gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com Injection-Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 21:35:02 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:18885 Date: 2014-03-20T14:35:02-07:00 List-Id: Good luck with this ambitious project. A challenge is that at some point th= e AST knows too much about the program. I've developed a similar system 25 = years ago (in Turbo Pascal!) for Ada 83. The pros: no more parsing, compila= tion is straightforward, links are readily available, the system is able to= manage the layout itself, to indent etc. . The cons: formatting rigidity, = and if the programer needs to make a big change, use another package, types= and so on, plus all depending changes, he needs to have his program "incor= rect" for a while. In my system, it meant export to text, rework the text a= nd then reimport the changed text. Too cumbersome - and tools like GPS offe= r nowadays navigation tools and autocomplete even in the middle of a such a= rework, thanks to smart guessing, and all that at text level... _________________________ Gautier's Ada programming http://gautiersblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Ada