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I'm doing this for Javascript - finding it a lot of fun! https://github.com/timruffles/js-to-c https://github.com/timruffles/js-to-c I'd recommend it as a proj

I'm doing this for Javascript - finding it a lot of fun! https://github.com/timruffles/js-to-c https://github.com/timruffles/js-to-c I'd recommend it as a project to any wanting to learn more about a particular language (implementing a language teaches you how it works in painstaking detail), and get a better 'feel' for how languages and compilation works in general.

sdegutis 8y ago
Ironic that your first initial and last name is truffles considering bridging between C and JS (and other languages) is possible if they're implemented via Graal's Truffle library: https://github.com/oracle/graal/tree/master/truffle https://github.com/oracle/graal/tree/master/truffle
- jjnoakes 8y ago
  It doesn't have to be negative to get downvotes. Sometimes irrelevant discussion items are downvoted to keep them in the periphery.
13of40 8y ago
Me too, except with Visual Basic 6. (It's a work thing.) Besides error handling, I think the gnarliest thing I've come across is this: VB has built in file management commands it inherited from GW-BASIC. Built in, in the sense that they're first class statements built into the language. One of these, for renaming files, goes "NAME <old> AS <new>", where old and new can be arbitrarily complex expressions. Name isn't a reserved word, so you can have a variable or subroutine called "name". So consider these three statements: name (...) as (...) name (...) = (...) name (...) ...where (...) represents an arbitrarily complex expression. The first one is a "name as" command, the second is an assignment to an array element, and the third is a procedure call, and you can't tell which until you've fully and accurately parsed the first arbitrarily huge expression. Also, the following: name: In BASIC a colon separates two statements on the same line, and an empty statement is valid, so is this a label or a subroutine call followed by an empty statement? Edit - just remembered this gem: You can use a "With" block to save having to type the name of an object when referring to its members... With SomeObject MsgBox .Name End With ...will pop up a dialog showing SomeObject.Name. Now go ahead and tokenize that second line. If you're like me you got three tokens: [MsgBox][.][Name] The problem is that's indistinguishable from... MsgBox.Name You could say that ".Name" should be one token. Hmm. So what if it's something like... MsgBox .Name.Substring(1, 3).ToUpper() Still one token? I think my hair's going to be white by the time I finish this project.
- timruffles 8y ago
  Sounds like quite the challenge! > Built in, in the sense that they're first class statements built into the language. :O > 94 year old hacker in the great state of Texas Wow, I hope I'm coding at 94!
  - 13of40 8y ago
    > :O I get the same icky feeling when I look at some of the things they've shoehorned into JavaScript over the years, though, like regex.

sdegutis 8y ago

Ironic that your first initial and last name is truffles considering bridging between C and JS (and other languages) is possible if they're implemented via Graal's Truffle library: https://github.com/oracle/graal/tree/master/truffle https://github.com/oracle/graal/tree/master/truffle

jjnoakes 8y ago
It doesn't have to be negative to get downvotes. Sometimes irrelevant discussion items are downvoted to keep them in the periphery.

13of40 8y ago

Me too, except with Visual Basic 6. (It's a work thing.) Besides error handling, I think the gnarliest thing I've come across is this: VB has built in file management commands it inherited from GW-BASIC. Built in, in the sense that they're first class statements built into the language. One of these, for renaming files, goes "NAME <old> AS <new>", where old and new can be arbitrarily complex expressions. Name isn't a reserved word, so you can have a variable or subroutine called "name". So consider these three statements: name (...) as (...) name (...) = (...) name (...) ...where (...) represents an arbitrarily complex expression. The first one is a "name as" command, the second is an assignment to an array element, and the third is a procedure call, and you can't tell which until you've fully and accurately parsed the first arbitrarily huge expression. Also, the following: name: In BASIC a colon separates two statements on the same line, and an empty statement is valid, so is this a label or a subroutine call followed by an empty statement? Edit - just remembered this gem: You can use a "With" block to save having to type the name of an object when referring to its members... With SomeObject MsgBox .Name End With ...will pop up a dialog showing SomeObject.Name. Now go ahead and tokenize that second line. If you're like me you got three tokens: [MsgBox][.][Name] The problem is that's indistinguishable from... MsgBox.Name You could say that ".Name" should be one token. Hmm. So what if it's something like... MsgBox .Name.Substring(1, 3).ToUpper() Still one token? I think my hair's going to be white by the time I finish this project.

timruffles 8y ago
Sounds like quite the challenge! > Built in, in the sense that they're first class statements built into the language. :O > 94 year old hacker in the great state of Texas Wow, I hope I'm coding at 94!
- 13of40 8y ago
  > :O I get the same icky feeling when I look at some of the things they've shoehorned into JavaScript over the years, though, like regex.