Tuesday, February 04, 2003

.NET's System.CodeDom Using the CodeDOM. One of the promises of .NET is that the language used is secondary to the framework. The classes in the CodeDom namespace really drive this point home. Using CodeDom, we build a tree, or graph, populated with objects from the System.CodeDom namespace, and after the tree is populated, we use the CodeProvider object provided by every .NET language to convert the tree into code in that language. This makes switching languages as simple as switching the CodeProvider used at the end. In this article, Nick Harrison shows you the ins and outs of using the CodeDOM. [O'Reilly Network Articles] That's impressive. 11:37:33 AM      comment []  trackback []

TCL: Meet Parrot http://www.coleda.com/users/coke/parrot/ On the Perl6 summary , I read that a student was looking for a worthy masters project and was steered towards extending the existing TCL->Parrot compiler into something more useful. Reading further in the thread it appears he decided to go with Lua, a mostly-embedded language popular with game developers. Sadly, I read somewhere else that all three of the Perl6 honchos (Larry W, Dan S. and ??) are currently without paying jobs. This means that parrot is coming along even more slowly than it was. And that it's time for me to donate to the Perl Foundation. 8:35:43 AM      comment []  trackback []