Re: Idle musings on doing E over again

[+awarth]

Have you looked at ometa <http://tinlizzie.org/ometa/>?

On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Dan Bornstein <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 8:32 PM, Kevin Reid <kpreid-M/[email protected]> wrote:
> > Can you say something about what tools you researched?
>
> To be clear, this wasn't academic research, and I didn't take notes.
> Just briefly, I looked at / considered all of these (in no particular
> order, and almost certainly missing some): JavaScript / V8 / Node,
> Clojure, Go, LLVM, ANTLR, lex/yacc, C++, peg/leg, Haxe/NekoVM, and
> Erlang.
>
> > Parsing should be in the standard library. I'm not sure that a
> particular parsing technique should be built into the *language*.
>
> At least for my own current work, I'm interested in making parsing
> more fundamental, but YMMV of course!
>
> My take is that tools like Awk (and to a lesser extent JavaScript)
> have amply demonstrated that baking particular parsing techniques into
> the language itself can make for a compelling programming experience.
> I'm interested in exploring this space, but with a parsing language
> that's better than standard(ish) regex syntax.
>
> > I don't care for working with self-hosting-only systems because I want
> to be able to take it apart and change everything and not have a
> bootstrapping problem.
>
> I generally agree. To reiterate, I am interested in a self-hosted
> system as a platform for further development. I am looking forward to
> doing a lot of non-self-hosted work on top of that platform.
>
> > Wish me sufficient free time!
>
> I wish you sufficient free time!
>
> -dan
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    Cheers,
    --MarkM

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