W-Code

>  >> Ok Hans any chance we will get a W-Code compiler???
>
> Remember it was never intended as a product so documentation etc. is
> "thin".

I have made my living working with thin docs... Exploring is half the fun
:-)

>
> Don't forget that even on so-called "open" platforms very few tools
> generate out to the hardware - that makes you way too platform specific -
> they don't even generate assembler - they tend to generate C, C++ or
(these
> days) Java.  I don't see that you're missing much by not being able to
code
> in W-code.

W-Code is not direct to the hardware either... It is to a virtual machine
abstraction according to Hans' mail. If I were to be writing a compiler I
would not want to have to write it in something that generated C/C++ which
then generates and intermediate form and finally gets compiled into
executable form... I would want to go direct to the intermediate form (
which I would think W-Code is) and then make the executable.

Due to the fact that this virtual machine is based on a stack oriented
machine I could apply all my 6502 and 68000 machine coding experience to
this problem :-) Man how I wish IBM would have gone with Motorola!!!

Ok enough rambling
Eric

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