Am 11/01/2012 01:42 PM, schrieb
dimitris chloupis:
Probably I have mentioned this several times but I am
working on a project for visual programming targeting 3d app
blender. I am using currently pharo though I am still
interested in squeak too and I have decided that in order to
communicate with blender python to use a socket bridge. My
project is named "Ephestos". Now what was wondering is the
following, how difficult it would be to parse smalltalk to
python. Ephestos is of course smalltalk , and blender uses
python for its addon system. It would be great if extensions
made in Ephestos could converted to python addons.
I am already planning to map smalltalk methods to Blender
python api call, but I was wondering how easy it would be to
parse that code to python.
So far I am aware of OMeta and Petit Parser libraries. What
are your suggestions ?
Parsing is the simplest task in such a project, you probably won't
even need OMeta or PP since your source language is Smalltalk and
there's a pretty usable parser in the system (after all, the
Smalltalk to C translation works with it).
Generating the Python code is not a parser task, but a code
generator task, and you could use the C code generator as a model
for that.
However, you'd also need to map the semantics from Smalltalk to
Python, and no parser will help you with that.
Cheers,
Hans-Martin
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