Y'all,
I took a look at Eclipse plugins recently, and I think that, using
examples from e.g. the NSIS configuration editor and the demo Java
plugin, making a Modula-3 aware editor wouldn't be that hard.
Anybody ever tried something like that?
I've got an interest in this, as I kind of overdid some scripting
tool I made, and ended up with a nice start at an M3 toolkit. I'm
trying to see if I can convince legal to take this home, otherwise
I'ld have to re-start.
It's in Java, but has full access to the JVM. Module identifiers are
layered like Java to give packages, but IMPORTs will just as easily
import a Java runtime package. It's far from complete, but is a big
help as scripting language.
I guess I wanted scripting, but not Perl or PHP. Can't help myself,
just like writing compilers, and my job never needs them. Ah well,
that's what you get for working for an employer who wants development
risks for tooling to be with vendors of tools.
Bert Laverman
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