Re: Which GNO/ME and ORCA utils needed...

[daver@drift.winternet.com (Dave Roberts)]

twdorr01@rigel.spd.louisville.edu (Thomas Dorris) writes:
>I'm taking a class this semester that is offering me the opportunity to 
>do some development on my ol' ][GS, but I've been out of it sooo long that
>I'm not sure what I could spend my time on that would be most useful to
>the GS community... Any suggestions?  I'm thinking along the lines of
>a version of LEX for the GS or, maybe, a C++ compiler (BIG maybe since
>my time is already strained this semester).  The class, by the way, is
>compiler design, so anything that does some good parsing of a structure
>input file and produces some resulting, usable file would be the general
>idea.

	A version of lex (flex) and yacc (bison) have already been ported
and are included with the GNO distribution. A C/C++ compiler would be
pretty darn nifty, especially if you can get it to run faster than ORCA/C.

>I don't have GNO/ME, unfortunately, but I do have a really old version of
>ORCA.  Is there going to be some problem in writing it under ORCA as far
>as portability to GNO (obviously the preferred environment) is concerned?
>Will it be GREATLY beneficial to get GNO/ME before starting (like some really
>helpful capabilities) and if so, anybody got a copy they want to sell cheap???

	You'd be better off developing your project under GNO, IMHO,
because 1) the utilities are better and more complete 2) the shell is
more powerful 3) GNO has a more complete set of libraries than standard
ORCA/C and 4) in the case of a compiler, it would be easir to pattern it
after unix style cc/gcc/lcc/whatever.

Dave
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