On Tuesday 16 March 2010 12:43:42 pm Steve Teale wrote: > 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 > Yep, downloaded it this am and started to look into it though it is a lot to start with. That's why I wanted to look into a simple example and play a bit up-front. Thank you for the recommendation though. Varol :)
