The Topy project

[Chris Liechti]

pinard at iro.umontreal.ca (François Pinard) wrote in
news:mailman.1018039992.15896.python-list at python.org: 

> Hi, people.  I merely feel like chatting a bit. :-)
[long talk about per2py and scheme2py]

this reminds be to GCC and RTL. the GNU-C compiler translates the
source to an intermediate language called RTL. this intermediate code can 
then be optimized with arithmetical rules and finaly its output to 
assembler/bytecodes (many diffrent dialects for a dozen processors).
there are diffrent fontends to genereate RTL for diffrent languages as C, 
C++, Java and some other.

thats in some ways the same problem as yours...

i think the ideal soloution would be to translate the source language to a 
meta language that describes the algorithm and its properties. then this 
cookbook could be used to generate code in any other language - however i 
don't think that such an aproach is realy possible with todays 
technologies...

chris

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Chris <cliechti at gmx.net>