[Aldor-l] Using Aldor or SPAD

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Ralf Hemmecke <ralf at hemmecke.de> writes:

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| > It should be a mater of days or weeks to have a good front-end.
| 
| Oh, really? 

when you get a handful of motivated people, yes.

| Why then wait any longer? Maybe, because there is no 100%
| clear definition of the language Aldor?

That is an important factor I guess. I.e. what do we want?  What kind
of problems do we want to see solved by the language?

| > It would take momths to have decent optimizations in.
| > but, that is definitely in our reach.
| 
| Does somebody volunteer to start such a project, preferably under GPL?

well, I'm already burried with Axiom and other projects; but I do
definitely have an interest here.

| I don't want the Aldor **language** to split, because of different
| compiler implementation, but staying in an uncertain future is just
| bad for the Aldor language to reach the masses.

it would not be good for anybody to have the community split; however,
more than one implementations are beneficial for both the language and
the community.

-- Gaby