Fwd: Re: [Mono-list] some questions?

Kunle Odutola kunle.odutola@virgin.net
Wed, 1 Aug 2001 01:10:25 +0100


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> From: mono-list-admin@ximian.com [mailto:mono-list-admin@ximian.com]On
> Behalf Of A Rafael D Teixeira
> Sent: 31 July 2001 17:31
> To: ravi@che.iitm.ac.in
> Cc: mono-list@ximian.com
> Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: [Mono-list] some questions?
>
>
> >>	Indeed :-) Having worked hard on getting a VB 6.0 parser pretty
> >>much in good working condition, I think we can re-use some of the
> >>efforts put into GNOME Basic although a chunk of it will have to be
> >>re-written
> >>IMHO :-)
>
> >>	It seems like we can join forces on this :-)
>
> >>	Regards,
>
> >>		Ravi
>
> IŽd be delighted to work with you.

Count me in on this as well. I would actually like to retarget the
VB6-compatible parser to generate IL too. What's it currently written in?

> I think weŽll have a lot of work on two fronts:
> 1 - adapt your parser mappings to the new sintax of VB.NET
> 2 - adapt the parser to generate the same trees of MiguelŽs mcs so that
> weŽll use the same backend to generate IL.

Cool idea.

> BTW, surely Visual Basic and .NET are probably trademarks of
> Microsoft, so
> we have to consider another name...
>
> I suggest 'MonoBASIC' as the outsdanting name and the name of the program
> file to be 'mbas'.

MonoBASIC and MonoBASIC.6 ;-)

Kunle