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From: John Colagioia <JColagioia@csi.com>
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David Given wrote:

> In article <3ACB1D22.781A876@csi.com>,
>         John Colagioia <JColagioia@csi.com> writes:
> > I tried mailing directly, but my server doesn't seem to want to speak to yours at the
> > moment.  At your leisure, could you pass on a copy?  I may not use any particular piece,
> > but as a prototype/alternate view and functional system, I can hardly pass it up as a
> > point of comparison and source of ideas.
> I should probably point out somewhere that the email address in the From:
> line is bogus. (I haven't been able to work out yet where knews is getting
> it from.) The ones in my signature should work.

Ah.  Gotcha.


> Actually, I have just had a brainstorm: there's this thing called the Web,
> see, and I've heard it's great for distributing files.

I've heard of it, but I figured it was just a metaphor for "carrier spiders" or some other
obscure primal technology...


> So today or
> tomorrow it should appear on my IF page on http://www.cowlark.com; I'll
> report back when I've done it.

I've got it.  Looks real good for a first pass.  I'm impressed.


> What C compiler core are you using? lcc is very good; it's simple,
> amazingly fast, and easy to write back-ends for. I had a brief look at gcc
> but thought it was too scary. You are using a compiler core, right? If
> not, you really want to...

Well, it depends exactly what you mean.  I intend to eventually use a "middle tier" that I've
written to handle a number of projects.  However, I'll probably start this by feeding in
someone else's compiler output, like lcc, then migrate the front end later. This way, I'm not
married as much to C for the long haul.

So...yes and no.  And yes.  But no.  See?


> (BTW, what's zasm like? I couldn't find it when I was doing my compiler,
> which was why I was using Inform.)

It's similar to Inform, but different in enough ways that I'm still working on the earliest
phases of using it for development.  I'll upload documentation as soon as I write something
coherent, which should quickly follow my first complete success...


