From: Francois Pottier <Francois.Pottier@inria.fr>
To: matias@k-bell.com
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: Go for ultimate localization!
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 11:44:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19991029114407.05613@pauillac.inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=3C38188EFB.80C29974=40k-bell.com=3E=3B_from_Mat=EDas?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?_Giovannini_on_Thu=2C_Oct_28=2C_1999_at_02=3A59=3A29PM_-0?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?300?=
> Localizing the language is not that difficult, but it would involve
> exposing the abstract syntax to the localizer, and the localizer would
> have the difficult task of rewriting the parser.
I would like to point out that this has been done by Apple in their
AppleScript scripting language. It looks cool at first sight, but it
means that textual programs are no longer portable, since the machine
you're moving to may not use the same language as yours. So, only the
(binary) abstract syntax tree is portable, which is (IMHO) a very bad
thing, since maintaining compatibility across versions of the language
becomes very difficult.
--
François Pottier
Francois.Pottier@inria.fr
http://pauillac.inria.fr/~fpottier/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-10-29 17:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-10-15 13:53 localization, internationalization and Caml Gerard Huet
1999-10-15 20:28 ` Gerd Stolpmann
1999-10-19 18:06 ` skaller
1999-10-20 21:05 ` Gerd Stolpmann
1999-10-21 4:42 ` skaller
1999-10-21 12:05 ` Matías Giovannini
1999-10-21 15:35 ` skaller
1999-10-21 16:27 ` Matías Giovannini
1999-10-21 16:36 ` skaller
1999-10-21 17:21 ` Matías Giovannini
1999-10-23 9:53 ` Benoit Deboursetty
1999-10-25 21:06 ` Jan Skibinski
1999-10-26 18:02 ` skaller
1999-10-25 0:54 ` How to format a float? skaller
1999-10-26 0:53 ` Michel Quercia
1999-10-26 4:36 ` Go for ultimate localization! Benoit Deboursetty
1999-10-28 17:04 ` Pierre Weis
1999-10-28 17:41 ` Matías Giovannini
1999-10-28 17:59 ` Matías Giovannini
1999-10-29 9:44 ` Francois Pottier [this message]
1999-10-28 21:00 ` Gerd Stolpmann
1999-10-29 4:29 ` skaller
1999-10-17 14:29 ` localization, internationalization and Caml Xavier Leroy
1999-10-19 18:36 ` skaller
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