Greetings Tyrel Russell,
I am not a current CS444 student but I will be in the next term. I was hoping you could answer a few questions relating to this course. Our group wants to do a compiler written in LISP for Python. I was wondering three things. First, is there any better source control than CVS for our environment? Second, CLISP doesn't seem to be in the cs environment I was wondering if we had any other alternatives. Lastly, I was wondering if Python was a viable alternative to Ada.
Thank you for your time,
Robert Luong
His response:
I am afraid that I can only answer your questions partially. First, I prefer to use CVS because it is well understood by everybody and supported by the school. Questions about lisp interpreters on the student servers are out of my area, I don’t use the student servers so I don’t know what is on them. Asking the MFCF help desk people about lisp might clear up that question. It would be perfectly fine to write a compiler in lisp if you think that you would be more comfortable using lisp. As to whether you can implement python is up to the instructor which to my knowledge is still undecided.
Sorry I can’t be any more specific,
Tyrel
3 comments:
I think asking Cormak might be a better idea. This guy is clueless
I'll ask Cormak about Lisp and Python.
I'll e-Mail the MFCF about SVN and the Lisp thing itself?
Yeah, email Cormack about lisp and python, and mfcf about svn and lisp.
Having linux installed on my desktop I think I may do most of my work at home in V1, especially since we'll have to eat dinner there every night.
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