Re: stack languages, was Supporting multiple input syntaxes

From	luser droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com.dmarc.email>
Newsgroups	comp.compilers
Subject	Re: stack languages, was Supporting multiple input syntaxes
Date	2020-08-24 12:14 -0700
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On Monday, August 24, 2020 at 10:42:33 AM UTC-5, luser droog wrote:
> > [Why Postscript?  I realize it's Turing complete, but it seems odd to run ones parser on a printer. -John]
>
> I discovered PostScript around '97 or '98. I was taking Computer Graphics
> and it was in an Appendix to the textbook (Salman). At the same time
> I was editor of the Honors College student magazine so it really piqued
> my interest as a graphics and typography language. ...

> [Take a look at Forth.  Many of the same advantages, runs a lot more places. -John]

Good suggestion. I have looked at Forth quite a bit. I lurked in
comp.lang.forth for a number of years. I've got a half-written
interpreter that stalled because my vm doesn't have any I/O.

https://groups.google.com/d/topic/comp.lang.forth/Y1XlX8wD3RQ/discussion
https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/6610/how-to-do-i-o-with-emulation-code

I went down a wild rabbit hole after discovering the document "X86 is an
octal machine" and tried to recode the assembler macros using more octal.
But I kind of stalled on that whole area since the first thing I would
want in Forth is tagged objects like PostScript has. There's Oforth and
8th which both supply that sort of thing, but then I'd probably miss
the PS graphics functions.,,. :)

I've also played with APL and tried writing a few interpreters for it.
But the common thread among all these interpreters was coding them all
in C. So I turned my attention to compiling and analyzing C code.
A friend of mine was wanting a really customizable C formatter so I
thought I might be able to make a tool to accommodate lots of different
backends for doing something with the parse tree or syntax tree.
I want to be able to write C99 code and transpile it automatically to
something that will work with the MS compiler without having to maintain
any MS business in the "master" source.

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Supporting multiple input syntaxes luser droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com.dmarc.email> - 2020-08-12 15:20 -0700
  Re: Supporting multiple input syntaxes Kaz Kylheku <793-849-0957@kylheku.com> - 2020-08-13 00:43 +0000
  Re: Supporting multiple input syntaxes Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@netscape.net> - 2020-08-13 10:27 +0200
    Re: Supporting multiple input syntaxes luser droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com.dmarc.email> - 2020-08-13 21:36 -0700
    Re: Supporting multiple input syntaxes luser droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com.dmarc.email> - 2020-08-23 22:16 -0700
  Re: Supporting multiple input syntaxes minforth@arcor.de - 2020-08-13 14:15 -0700
    Re: Supporting multiple input syntaxes luser droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com.dmarc.email> - 2020-08-13 21:37 -0700
    RE: Supporting mulitple input syntaxes Christopher F Clark <christopher.f.clark@compiler-resources.com> - 2020-08-14 12:44 +0300
  Supporting multiple input syntaxes David Lovemore <davidlovemore@gmail.com> - 2020-08-15 06:42 -0700
    Re: Supporting multiple input syntaxes luser droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com.dmarc.email> - 2020-08-15 15:20 -0700
      Re: Supporting multiple input syntaxes David Lovemore <davidlovemore@gmail.com> - 2020-08-16 02:21 -0700
        Re: Supporting multiple input syntaxes luser droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com.dmarc.email> - 2020-08-20 14:45 -0700
          Re: Supporting multiple input syntaxes luser droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com.dmarc.email> - 2020-08-23 19:35 -0700
            Re: implementation languages, was Supporting multiple input syntaxes luser droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com.dmarc.email> - 2020-08-23 20:39 -0700
              Re: implementation languages, was Supporting multiple input syntaxes Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2020-08-24 17:01 +0000
                Re: implementation languages, was Supporting multiple input syntaxes luser droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com.dmarc.email> - 2020-08-28 10:56 -0700
              Re: stack languages, was Supporting multiple input syntaxes luser droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com.dmarc.email> - 2020-08-24 12:14 -0700
  Re: Supporting multiple input syntaxes gah4 <gah4@u.washington.edu> - 2020-08-23 14:26 -0700
  Re: Supporting multiple input syntaxes antispam@math.uni.wroc.pl - 2021-02-11 23:27 +0000
    Re: Supporting multiple input syntaxes Elijah Stone <elronnd@elronnd.net> - 2021-02-17 01:44 -0800
      Re: Supporting multiple input syntaxes antispam@math.uni.wroc.pl - 2021-02-23 23:28 +0000
        Re: Supporting multiple input syntaxes "ltc...@gmail.com" <ltcmelo@gmail.com> - 2021-03-14 21:08 -0400
  Re: Supporting multiple input syntaxes Rock Brentwood <rockbrentwood@gmail.com> - 2021-03-14 17:36 -0700

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