[Mono-list] Re: Should I fork the MonoBASIC project out of MCS?

[Kunle Odutola]

> Hello Kunle,

Miguel,

> Well, my judgment on this particular issue says that you will spend more
> time working these things out than the benefit you will achieve (you
> still have to review every single line of code to make sense with the VB
> semantic analysis).
>
> But feel free to prove me wrong with a working implementation of the
> idea ;-)

Perhaps. Seems the only way to convince you ;-)

> Usually things go this way:
>
> 	Language 1 \                             / Target 1
> 	Language 2 - Intermediate Representation - Target 2
> 	Language 3 /                             \ Target 3
>
> 	<--- A ----> <---------- B ------------> <--- C --->
>
> You are mixing in your paragraph above many things.  If MCS supported
> multiple languages, all the work falls in the A B section above.
> Writing a gcc backend falls in the C section above.

Exactly. But if mcs supports many languages, someone is more likely to want
to work on developing a gcc backend than if it supports just one....

Kunle