[e-lang] elib in C++

[Mark Miller]

On 7/21/06, rick at vecx.net <rick at vecx.net> wrote:
> I'm new (kindof) to this list and I am looking for references, previous discussions,
> ruminations, etc on porting the java elib to C++.

Welcome!

Please check out
http://www.erights.org/enative/
http://epan.cvs.sourceforge.net/epan/epan/lib/smallcaps/csrc/
These are intended to be a start at implementing a Kernel-E
interpreter in C/C++. The plan for these is for most of elib to be in
E and run on top of this interpreter. Note that both of the above code
collections are incomplete and stale, but they are good starts. In any
case, if you did want to implement more of elib directly in C/C++, you
might still want to start with the runtime representations represented
by the above code.


> My goal is not necessarily port E and its lib to native code(although I hope that I can help
> in that), but rather give build a foundation from which to build a general distributed data
> propagation/analysis system with the _long_ term goal of creating some kind of a
> distributed OS along the PlanetLab vein, but open and more adhoc.
> I would like to base it off of elib to mitigate the possible risks of such a system.

An interesting goal. I wish you luck!

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    --MarkM