Path: utzoo!telly!ddsw1!mcdchg!rutgers!mailrus!ukma!gatech!ken From: ken@gatech.edu (Ken Seefried iii) Newsgroups: gnu.gcc Subject: GNU Modula-2 or other languages Keywords: Modula-2, languages, compilers, Modula-3, Lisp Message-ID: <17693@gatech.edu> Date: 3 Dec 88 09:44:35 GMT Organization: School of Information and Computer Science, Georgia Tech, Atlanta Lines: 30 I asked this question something like a year ago and got little response, but I thought I might give it another spin. Is anyone working on or planning to work on front ends for the the GNU compiler back-end that translate languages other than 'c' and 'c++'? I have been informed that the back end was written with some degree of thought toward inplimenting other languages throught it. In particular, I would be interested in seeing a Modula-2 (or much better, Modula-3, as per Olivetti's work in the area) compiler and perhaps a Common Lisp. Another, perhaps more interesting, language of interest might be Bertrand's Eiffel language. This is, of course, not a slap at the FSF's excellent work on the exsisting languages. And I don't want to dilute the FSF's effort with too many languages (if you want GNU BASIC or GNU COBOL, you need to be hurt 1/2 ;'}), but all the worlds not 'c'. If we could, I'd like NOT to hear about individuals religion concerning one language versus another. This is not an appropriate forum... Thanks... ken seefried iii ...!{akgua, allegra, amd, harpo, hplabs, ken@gatech.edu masscomp, rlgvax, sb1, uf-cgrl, unmvax, ccastks@gitvm1.bitnet ut-ngp, ut-sally}!gatech!ken "Children is more trouble than human beings!" -- Popeye the Sailor