From: "Germán Arias" <germanandre@gmx.es>
To: kawa@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Approach to add a new language
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2015 03:41:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1443238891.2513.13.camel@german-HP-245-G2-Notebook-PC> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56044CD1.2050802@bothner.com>
El jue, 24-09-2015 a las 12:19 -0700, Per Bothner escribió:
>
> On 09/24/2015 11:28 AM, Germán Arias wrote:
> > Hi all, I'm new at Kawa, although I have some experience in scheme, but
> > not in java. I read that Kawa can be used to implement other programming
> > languages in java platform. So I would like hear your suggestions to do
> > this. I'm thinking on implement Objective-C, but I don't know how this
> > works. Parse the objective-C files to generate the corresponding Sheme
> > files is enough? Or is necessary other considerations? Thanks in advance
> > for your help.
>
> Objective-C might be a challenge on the JVM, partly because C is a challenge
> on the JVM. Plus you have to define a mapping from the Objective-C class/object
> model to the Java model.
>
> Perhaps you could implement a subset of Objective-C - but why?
>
> I wouldn't use Scheme as an intermediate language (though one could).
> One problem is that makes it hard to get line number information correct.
> Better (and faster) to parse Objective-C and generate the Expression
> objects that Kawa uses.
Thanks for your advice.
P.S. After trying again, I'm able to compile an Objective-C runtime to
android. So, I will be able to compile directly Objective-C on
android :)
Thanks
Germán
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-26 3:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-24 18:29 Germán Arias
2015-09-24 19:20 ` Per Bothner
2015-09-25 9:04 ` packaging classes in kawa Damien Mattei
2015-09-25 9:09 ` Damien Mattei
[not found] ` <CAE4XeMCHZVDNEMeHXbBHvsgtUXTTzqknZxuTyWp0og8BWuC_mQ@mail.gmail.com>
2015-09-25 13:10 ` Damien Mattei
2015-09-25 15:15 ` Per Bothner
2015-09-25 15:49 ` Damien Mattei
2015-09-25 16:21 ` Per Bothner
2015-09-26 3:41 ` Germán Arias [this message]
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