16 Dec
2002
16 Dec
'02
2:43 p.m.
*hehe* I offer to shut up and code "unless somebody pokes me with a
sharp stick
or something" and the next thing that happens is:
On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 07:47:07PM +0000, Simon Jenkins
wrote:
>>It sounds like you'd be better off working form the Sfront SAOL code.
>>
>>
>>
>Well, I'm working from scratch at the moment cos your code was written in a
>write-only language that I currently choose not to understand :)
>
>
and Paul Winkler wrote:
You're confusing things...
No I'm not.
Steve's quick hack was written in Perl.
I know what it was written in. Its a quick hack of a C fragment pasting
idea which I contributed to a XAP sub-sub-sub-sub-thread about
on-the-fly code generation, so I /have/ been paying attention.
There was some discussion of sfront mixed into the same bit of thread
(this was during the initial XAP frenzy when the list effectively became
a very busy, very lagged IRC channel for a couple of days) but this was
a distinct, though related, idea.
(BTW I know I was probably misrepresenting Perl when I called it a
write-only language. Thats why I added the smiley and made it clear
that I don't use it.)
Sfront is entirely in C.
The fact that sfront is in C is totally irrelevant.
The fact that it /generates/ C makes it a close relative of the sort of
thing I was talking about (and the work you have done with it for
outputting jack clients makes it an even closer relative). But it doesn't
make it *into* the thing I was talking about.
Anyway, I /was/ talking about it, but now I'm coding it.
Simon Jenkins
(Bristol, UK)