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"As I was writing this tutorial I found myself speculating about what happened to metacompiler technology" I suspect that one part of the answer is that for mo
by FullyFunctional 12y ago
"As I was writing this tutorial I found myself speculating about what happened to metacompiler technology"
I suspect that one part of the answer is that for most non-trivial examples, the parsing part is the easy part and metacompilers don't help with the hard part (type checking/inference, optimization, code generation, etc).
That said, I see terrible broken ad-hoc parsers all over the place that probably could benefit from this.
- walterbell 12y agoIn Doug Engelbart's 1969 MOAD, he mentioned that the DSLs used in the demo were built with TREE-META, the last gov-funded, unclassified metacompiler, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TREE-META http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TREE-META Historical email: http://www.ifcx.org/wiki/TREEMETA.html http://www.ifcx.org/wiki/TREEMETA.html 1974 manual: http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/acl/literature/manuals/tree-meta/contents.htm http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/acl/literature/manuals/t...