Python Front-end to GCC

[Neil Cerutti]

On 2013-10-22, Mark Janssen <dreamingforward at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> So which of you is confused?  I ask that in the inclusive (not
>>> exclusive OR) sense.... ;^)  <-- face says "both".
>>
>> Could you please be less snarky?  We're trying to communicate here, and it
>> is not at all clear yet who is confused and who is not.  If you are
>> interested in discussing technical topics, then discuss them.
>
> Okay.  The purpose of BNF (at least as I envision it) is to
> produce/specify a *context-free* "grammar".

Context-sensitive grammars can be parse, too.

> A lexer parses the tokens specified in the BNF into an Abstract
> Syntax Tree.  

A lexer traditionaly reads the text and generates a stream of
tokens to the parser.

> If one can produce such a tree for any given source, the
> language, in theory, can be compiled by GCC into an executable.

What executable would GCC compile from a program that matched
this grammar?

spamgram  = spam1,  { ', ', more_spam }, '.'
spam1     = 'Spam'
more_spam = spam, { ', ', spam }
spam      = 'spam'

-- 
Neil Cerutti