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Subject: Re: Wirth-ian languages
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On Tue, 29 Apr 2014 06:33:50 -0400, James Harris  
<james.harris.1@gmail.com> wrote:

> If you did choose to evolve C into something else you would
> probably not want to keep it backwards compatible.

Why wouldn't you?

1) C is everywhere
2) if the C compiler has a preprocessor,
     you can do most any syntax conversion
3) C can do everything, or C++ can if C can't,
     and C++ was coded in C ...

LOL. ;-)

AISI, the easy place to start is to write your language parser in C.
Yes, you may need to rewrite it in the host language, eventually,
or you could cross-compile.


Rod Pemberton