From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Neil Jerram Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Guile Summer of Code project Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:40:42 +0000 Message-ID: <874pavlmh1.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> References: <47E238A8.5010704@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1206402062 17780 80.91.229.12 (24 Mar 2008 23:41:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:41:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org To: Luis Araujo Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 25 00:41:32 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JdwIF-00017t-I4 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:41:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JdwHe-0004QQ-E4 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:40:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JdwHZ-0004Pp-Jv for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:40:49 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JdwHY-0004P2-ON for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:40:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JdwHY-0004Os-JI for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:40:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mail3.uklinux.net ([80.84.72.33]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JdwHU-0000aR-FX; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:40:44 -0400 Original-Received: from arudy (host86-145-183-175.range86-145.btcentralplus.com [86.145.183.175]) by mail3.uklinux.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EE3D1F68B4; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:40:43 +0000 (GMT) Original-Received: from laruns (laruns [192.168.0.10]) by arudy (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECDCE3800A; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:40:42 +0000 (GMT) In-Reply-To: <47E238A8.5010704@gnu.org> (Luis Araujo's message of "Thu, 20 Mar 2008 06:12:56 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:7092 Archived-At: Luis Araujo writes: > Hello everyone , how are you? Hi Luis! Thanks for posting this proposal. I haven't read every detail yet, but have one initial query, and would be interested in your thoughts. It seems like it would be a big job to write a C parser in Guile, and it also seems that the really interesting results would flow from what one could do with the parser output - but that the existence of the parser on its own would not be that exciting. Therefore I'm wondering if there isn't already a C parser - implemented in some other language - that you could use to work first on the interesting possible applications of having a C parser. This is all assuming, of course, that there is a C parser available somewhere that would generate the right kind of output, and I haven't actually researched that. But it seems to me that the advantages of doing things this way round would be that - it would bring concrete advantages to Guile more quickly - the process of working on applications would probably make clear whether a Guile-implemented C parser would provide extra benefits, and would probably indicate what kind of parser interface and/or output would be most useful and convenient. What do you think? Neil