From ... Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!news.tele.dk!195.54.122.107!newsfeed1.bredband.com!bredband!uio.no!Norway.EU.net!127.0.0.1!nobody From: Erik Naggum Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Seeking tools for generating C++ code from Lisp Date: 31 Oct 2000 20:03:27 +0000 Organization: Naggum Software; vox: +47 800 35477; gsm: +47 93 256 360; fax: +47 93 270 868; http://naggum.no; http://naggum.net Lines: 45 Message-ID: <3182011407701538@naggum.net> References: <39FF261E.25072993@mak.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: oslo-nntp.eunet.no 973022613 21544 195.0.192.66 (31 Oct 2000 20:03:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@eunet.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 31 Oct 2000 20:03:33 GMT mail-copies-to: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.7 Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.lisp:2995 * John Morrison | The Short Version of the Problem: I want to write code in Lisp, and | I wish to compile it to C++, which must in turn be compiled against | several large, pre-existing C++ libraries. I am seeking tools which | would aid me. Gee, that is just what I did with a bunch of legacy code some time ago (I posted about tools that accepted C/C++ input and produced FFI declarations, arguing that a "standard" FFI is bogus, that tools to automate the task for each FFI is the key), but when I went to find it, I found an "interesting" match for you, instead, so I dropped it cold. I hope others aren't going to help you, either, because they probably will get the same kind of "thanks" I got when I tried to help you last time. You probably had yourself a good time then, so I hope you have a good time, now, too. Are you still heading the fastest-growing company in Cambridge, MA, turning such massive profits you have to deride and ridicule those who help others on the Net just to feel good about it? Whatever do you need _free_ help from others for that you cannot go out there and just _buy_ with all that money you claim you make? Get ethical and pay for it, if that _disgusting_ bragging has any reality behind it at all, will you? Man! If it weren't for the excellent news search engines, I would have walked right into this one, possibly giving you free advice or worse: free code, that turned into _billions_ of dollars for you that you could brag and boast some more about to elevate yourself above the people who help you. What a waste that would have been. It will probably take a very competent programmer with experience in producing readers and writers for "alternate" syntaxes from their grammars and a _desire_ to represent C++'s arcana in Common Lisp some six months to design and write the tools you need. But then you can sell it for tons of money and your fastest-growing bueiness can grow fastester! Wouldn't that be something! Now you surely see the ethical aspects of asking others to do this for free for someone like you, even if you didn't when you posted this request, right? Because giving people valuable stuff for free isn't how _you_ got into the position you could brag so much about, is it? #:Erik -- Does anyone remember where I parked Air Force One? -- George W. Bush