On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 12:14 -0400, Varol Okan wrote: > Ouch, > > looking on how to get started with writing a front end ( or modifying an > existing one I found this snippet : > ----------- > I agree with you, Tom. There comes a point where maintaining an example > front-end to aid developers comes at a greater expense than just helping > the developers of new front-ends (or improving the documentation). > ------------ > > So here is my question, where can I find documentation about creating a front- > end which is up-to-date. It seems > http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7884 ( from 2005 ) is a good start though > I don't know how valid this 5 year old information is. > > Ditto for > http://tldp.org/HOWTO/GCC-Frontend-HOWTO.html ( from 2002 ) > > My goal for this project would be to modify C++ to allow easier multi-threaded > programming, add garbage collection, utilize a runtime environment which > should handle scheduling, and thread pools, communications etc. and make all > of this as logically suitable as possible. Oh and it should be all integral > part of the programming language. > > I know that none of my ideas is new but some one has to put it all together, > so why not me. > > So I guess I am asking for advice on how to best go about doing this while > avoiding 'old' information, which is widespread throughout the Internet. > > Thanks for the/any advice up front. > > Varol :) > Have you looked at D? Steve
