[M3devel] Problems building CM3 from trunk.

[Daniel Alejandro Benavides D.]

Hi all:
well I think we would need a good C hacker (very good), I guess all experience is welcomed, perhaps is good idea to think in mobility I believe many others are working towards that, perhaps is time to us to do it.

http://www.mobily.com.sa/wps/portal/apps-award

Modula-3 web apps and custom browsers I think idea is recycled here, every word I heard about mobile web is client, client for that, ...

If so perhaps that's not good enough so we may be start to think what is better to start with, anyway I have not heard of something like mobile web development environment and so if they like idea why not? The biggest effort would be in Arabic characters, I guess would need to fix that part of current WIDECHAR libraries again not in m3core, fortunately there is a lady who worked in DEC SRC and Professor in an University who worked with BIll Kalsow, she's expert in arabic language (see:
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3504134.Violetta_Cavalli_Sforza
), it might that she can give us some help or a clue for interfaces. This idea is not bad at all since you surely know that internet has support now for that kind of url, we may have a hand on it. I have some indian friends as well, hopefully they may get some interest if so. My feeling is that they sort of like the language.

Thanks in advance for all your comments on that

--- El dom, 5/6/11, Hendrik Boom <hendrik at topoi.pooq.com> escribió:

> De: Hendrik Boom <hendrik at topoi.pooq.com>
> Asunto: Re: [M3devel] Problems building CM3 from trunk.
> Para: m3devel at elegosoft.com
> Fecha: domingo, 5 de junio, 2011 17:01
> On Sun, Jun 05, 2011 at 07:23:38PM
> +0100, Daniel Alejandro Benavides D. wrote:
> > Hi all:
> > Yes, it would be nice, but you would need to
> understand that we don't want the RT to depend on specific
> implementations, but to be portable really and truly, having
> C underneath makes just another thing makes us to depend on
> C RT (that is less likely to be the best idea), instead of
> that, a clean low level but truly independent platform low
> level C-- is good to start with, you might see another
> implementation of this idea in portable Cedar (Modula-3 was
> ported to it), just that their idea was to make this even
> further to interact with that language, us here just need
> the portable low level interfaces same way (I don't deny
> Modula-3 C runtime, but making it safe ideally is C--),
> something I don't know it's quite platform dependent in
> inner C currently if I may say so (who can say that BTW).
> Even SPIN did  transfered their ideal C idiom to SPIN
> Modula-3 (just what it missed, later did the same in a
> distributed JVM an nowadays I think in C#)
> 
> C-- is my favourite object code language, but it lacks
> support.  As far as I know, 
> it has a code generator for the 32-bit x86 processoe and
> that's about it.  Several 
> others have been mentioned as being nearly ready, but that
> isn't really good enough.  
> There hasn't been much activity on the C-- newsgroup on
> gmane.  THe project looks 
> moribund.
> 
> I think it would be worth breathing life into the C--
> project, but I'm really not 
> sure how to do it.
> 
> It would probably be a lot of work.
> 
> --  hendrik
> 
>