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Started by Mr Whippy Nov 8, 2002 at 8:46 AM 3 replies 300+ views

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Nov 8, 2002 at 8:46 AM

here''s a question that just evolved in the office. you know how these things happen on a friday. would it be significantly more difficult to write a c compiler in java or a java compiler in c. ie, are there any language specific features missing from either language which would be required to implement a compiler for the other language.

OrangyTang

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OrangyTang

Nov 8, 2002 at 8:56 AM

java source -> bytecode is minimal amount of work compared to C -> native code, since alot of the fancier features in java (polymorphism etc.) are performed by the JVM. IMHO, this is probably considerably easier..

Qw3r7yU10p!

Nov 8, 2002 at 9:02 AM

OrangyTang, that''s not what Mr Whippy was asking

99 flake please

George2

Nov 8, 2002 at 3:17 PM

quote:
Original post by Mr Whippy
here''s a question that just evolved in the office.
you know how these things happen on a friday.

would it be significantly more difficult to write a c compiler in java or a java compiler in c.

ie, are there any language specific features missing from either language which would be required to implement a compiler for the other language.

short anwser :
No

long answer :
No

Oluseyi

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Oluseyi

Nov 8, 2002 at 4:03 PM

It''d be faster to write them both in Perl anyway. It just might not run as fast at code generation, but it''ll smoke them in source parsing.

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