saraiya@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU (Nakul P. Saraiya) (12/22/89)
I have heard rumor of a C compiler for the Explorer. Can anyone give me details? The ability to integrate (easily) with lisp is vital, efficiency is not terribly important, and a C++ compiler would be great. nakul saraiya
Rice@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU (James Rice) (12/23/89)
Yes, there exists such a thing. I believe it's called ZetaC. Try asking Scott Burson <Gyro@Reasoning.Com> about it. He wrote it. I believe that it is good enough that you can compile the whole of YAK and run it on a LispM Rice.
barr@BBN.COM (Hunter Barr) (01/04/90)
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 89 11:25:01 PST
From: James Rice <Rice@sumex-aim.stanford.edu>
Yes, there exists such a thing. I believe it's called
ZetaC. Try asking Scott Burson <Gyro@Reasoning.Com> about
it. He wrote it. I believe that it is good enough that
you can compile the whole of YAK and run it on a LispM
Except for spelling, Rice is right. Scott Layson's ZETA-C runs YACC
(Yet Another Compiler Compiler) just fine. In fact, after the initial
bootstrap, Scott developed ZETA-C entirely on the LispM using YACC at
first, then Bison. It is *very* well integrated with the Lisp
environment. As for C++, you would have to be satisfied with a
pre-processor implementation, nothing as pretty as having C++ objects
map onto Flavors or CLOS objects. Let me know how it goes.
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HUNTER