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A modular toolchain for parsing and compiling code?

What do you say to Ted Neward's blog about Modular Toolchains? Is it feasible to have modular toolchains for the whole way from the source code to the executable or is it just utopia? Is it possible to convert every language to a standardized AST? Which language-features are difficult to represent in that AST? Where are the problems?

By Thomas Danecker at 2008-02-20 10:25 | LtU Forum | 7 comments | other blogs | 5325 reads