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Dear Gerard:
thank you for the update. From what you say it looks like
GP/CP is not an alternative to BlackBox right now. My original
thought was that if the OuS guys cannot live off selling
their compiler, and therefore they are a bit slow in
marketing it, let's look at a possible second source.
The academic groups do not have to support themselves
from sales, either, and therefore they possibly can afford
to spend their time implementing some more features.
It has been a common complaint that BB is now only available
for Windows. How about outsourcing the entire BlackBox framework
to an academic group who could possibly support some other platform,
such as linux? It seems to me that the GP group also target
Windows, but maybe they can target linux as well in order to
broaden the user base? I just wonder how tight is the connection
between these two CP vendors? Are they competing or are they
collaborating with each other?
These are just my loose thoughts after reading the usual
portion of complaints "why is BlackBox not as popular as it
deserves to be".
Wojtek Skulski skulski{([at]})nowhere.xy
On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, [iso-8859-1] Gérard Meunier wrote:
> From: Wojtek Skulski <skulski{([at]})nowhere.xy
> > Has anyone looked at the GP/CP? Any concrete experience?
>
> Yes. One year ago, I ported my BB compiler compiler Babel to gpcp (java
> version only, I've never tested the .net version). I got some bugs that I
> pointed out to John Gough and that he corrected. Some discrepancies with BB
> were corrected too. In short, I can say it works.
>
> > How good is it?
>
> From the language point of view, the interpretation of the report is more
> strict than with BB. For example, in a procedure an OUT parameter must be
> initialized, otherwise you get an error. BB doesn't make such tests. But I
> got very few problems with my port.
>
> The library is very lean. You'll find only what is necessary to run a
> compiler in command line. For Babel, it was perfect, but I never tried to
> port another program. Impossible. For one year, the library has not been
> developped, but I think that the main effort has been made on the .net
> version, which I don't know.
>
> Gérard
>
>
>
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