Re: Elegant code Was: Re: what kind of non microconroller app are

On 23 Apr, 09:00, Alex McDonald <b...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Apr 22, 6:00 pm, Ian Osgood <i...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>
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> > I personally think post-modern programming is the way of the future. A
> > language which cannot sup****t it is doomed to the sidelines. Thus, I
> > think Forth should start borrowing from other languages, continuing to
> > standardize but focusing more on standard code libraries, im****t
> > mechanisms, foreign-function interfaces and otherwise working well
> > with others.
>
> > Ian
>
> Prosaic mode:
>
> Then there is hope for "fat Forths" like Win32Forth. If there's one
> thing W32F encourages, it's getting leverage from existing libraries
> of code (DLLs primarily).

That's something I want to introduce into my system, a project for
the future as I haven't a clue how to do it at present.

> The only downside at the moment is the
> automation of the interface, where MPE's VxForth has the neat ability
> to im****t C function headers directly. I've worked a little with SWIG
> (http://www.swig.org/)
and used XSLT on the XML output it generates,
> but it's far from automatic.
>

Presumably this is essentially text translation, XML to Forth and this
is probably a silly question. Is there scope for using LexGen and
Gray to do this as for the BNF to Gray tool discussed earlier in this
thread or would that not offer any advantage over XSLT.

Gerry