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Re: scScript for Linux

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kreelman wrote: post #3
SA9G wrote: post #2

I wanted to write a love note to C... and if you hate it, it is all my fault.

It looks interesting. Isn't the same kind of thing available from LLVM? clang -emit-llvm -c main.c -o - | lli

You could run C that way... but scScript is a scripting language using C-like syntax with features designed for scripting. For example, it provides dual variadic parameter/arg lists. Turns out having "in" (pass-by-val) and "out" (pass-by-ref) parameters are more pleasant (at least to me) than trying to return N values out of a function (especially since script languages run away from pointers). Perhaps it is a testament to my ignorance, but I am not aware of another language that does this.

The difficulty in designing a language is not so much implementing a compiler, but the iterative process of implementing and fine-tuning a given aesthetic... a given flavor as it were and it has to work well. Of course the other side is testing the damn thing... so my hats off to QA!

Nevertheless, I am sure good tool users could save a lot of time instead of hand implementing everything, as I would. So thumbs up to LLVM.

Re: scScript for Linux

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Post by SA9G »

billywhizz wrote: post #5
SA9G wrote: post #2

I wanted to write a love note to C... and if you hate it, it is all my fault.

i haven't looked at the code yet but i love the website. just how open source project websites should be! ♥

May Odin smile upon you :-) And thanks for not laughing at my art!!

Re: scScript for Linux

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Post by SA9G »

mofosyne wrote: post #6

Can this trans-compile to C? (And vice versa?)

So you want to generate C code instead of ByteCodes.... and then compile the C? I suppose, if you broke out the runtime memory management (and a few other things) into a library. But I am not sure why you would....

If you want pure speed, then you would rather have it generate machine instructions instead of higher-level ByteCode ops. But you would not be using a scripting language if you want pure speed.

Perhaps if you only want a double-arglist variant of C (you must call it scC!) then you could write a front end processor! And by you, I mean not me :-)

Re: scScript for Linux

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Post by panzi »

SA9G wrote: post #4
kreelman wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It looks interesting. Isn't the same kind of thing available from LLVM? clang -emit-llvm -c main.c -o - | lli

You could run C that way... but scScript is a scripting language using C-like syntax with features designed for scripting. For example, it provides dual variadic parameter/arg lists. Turns out having "in" (pass-by-val) and "out" (pass-by-ref) parameters are more pleasant (at least to me) than trying to return N values out of a function (especially since script languages run away from pointers). Perhaps it is a testam…

No other language that does what? Have out parameters? Many have that, even Pascal.
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