[Aldor-l] Using Aldor or SPAD

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Ralf Hemmecke <ralf at hemmecke.de> writes:

[...]

| That sounds reasonable and it probably results in better readable SPAD 
| code. But anyway, SPAD should die out, either by using an sufficiently 
| open source Aldor compiler or by modifying the current SPAD compiler to 
| accept the Aldor language (and giving proper error messages).

I can't promote the disappearance of SPAD if I don't havw a working
replacement. 

[...]

|                                                   But I guess that is 
| going to take quite a while. First we have to find people who are 
| willing an able to start such a project.

It may take a while but it would be an interesting project, beneficial
to the Aldor language and community.  Most of the non-proprietary
languages I know have greatly benefited from the availability of
several implementations.

| Gaby, have you any idea how long it could take to produce another 
| reasonably efficient Aldor compiler?

It all depends on what you want to have in the "reasonably efficient"
compiler. It should be a mater of days or weeks to have a good
front-end. It would take momths to have decent optimizations in.
but, that is definitely in our reach.

-- Gaby