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Antelope (formerly "OPIA") - A Polymorphic z80 language
« on: July 15, 2011, 09:23:16 am »
Sorry to link it like this rather than posting all the details, but I already have it nicely formatted:

[EDIT: here is the current link): http://tinyurl.com/z80antelope

This language has gone through MUCH theorizing and many changes, and now it is about ready to code. Before I do so, I'd like some feedback. I have many of the same goals as were with the AXE Parser; but the differences are large enough that the two language will not be in direct competition with each other. For example, OPIA must be compiled on a computer; but it has the same feel and features as C#/Java/C++, and rather than having "everything you need" built in, it can be used or developed in all different kinds of ways.
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Re: OPIA - A full OOP language for z80
« Reply #1 on: July 15, 2011, 09:25:43 am »
This looks good. I'll be interested to see what comes of it.

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Re: OPIA - A full OOP language for z80
« Reply #2 on: July 15, 2011, 10:00:20 am »
Shouldn't this go in "Other calc related ideas and projects"?

Also, sounds like a cool idea :). I've been secretly working on something similar for a while so, so feel free to ping me if you want to discuss some aspects of the language and some down-and-dirty specs of the 84+ :)
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Re: OPIA - A full OOP language for z80
« Reply #3 on: July 15, 2011, 10:21:08 am »
So, in a sense it's a C# or C++-like language that compiles into Z80? (If so, then you are a god!) :P

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Re: OPIA - A full OOP language for z80
« Reply #4 on: July 15, 2011, 10:28:01 am »
So, in a sense it's a C# or C++-like language that compiles into Z80? (If so, then you are a god!) :P
It seems that it is a very C++ like language(I read through part of the readme)
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Re: OPIA - A full OOP language for z80
« Reply #5 on: July 15, 2011, 10:31:03 am »
Shouldn't this go in "Other calc related ideas and projects"?

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Re: OPIA - A full OOP language for z80
« Reply #6 on: July 15, 2011, 10:32:42 am »
This reminds me of something Ashbad and I tried to do a while ago. But it never really got started. I think I still have the basic compiler source that I started on (C++). Want it?
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Re: OPIA - A full OOP language for z80
« Reply #7 on: July 15, 2011, 10:54:33 am »
OPIA itself is a do-over of a previous project ... I made the mistake of releasing it with all kinds of bugs and lack of [sufficient] testing; but I learned a lot from it. Yeah, I'd love to talk about other related projects/ideas, and perhaps we can refine this a bit? ... I'm happy that there are other people out there doing this kind of thing though; until AXE came out of nowhere (and BBC Basic), I thought I was the only one.

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Re: OPIA - A full OOP language for z80
« Reply #8 on: July 15, 2011, 10:55:43 am »
perfect.
What language were you going to do the compiler in? C++?
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Re: OPIA - A full OOP language for z80
« Reply #9 on: July 15, 2011, 11:18:21 am »
I am going to do it in Java (packaged into an executable Jar) for 2 reasons:
 - It can be run on any machine.
 - It will code it as an API that can be exploited to construct a program in an OOP way rather than by typing it out ... if, hypothetically, someone makes such a thing; but it will be possible (like Bluej) ... basically, if another java-based tool wants to analyze OPIA code before compiling it, instead it can just have the compiler do it anyway, tinker with it, and then hand it back to the compiler.

I am going to make it command-line based, like the Java compiler is, so you just go "OPIA myprogram" or something; but you can pass in other things about where to look for files, and what environment to use (otherwise having to be specified in the code), etc. That will ALSO allow it to be interfaced with a nice GUI editor, which perhaps has it's own ideas about "projects" and managing files, and associating an environment in some other way than as part of the code ... I wanted it to be flexible. I can see this hooking right up to Notepad++, for example.

One other point: If there is a nice Java-based assembly compiler out there, that would be nice. Otherwise, I wouldn't mind undertaking to make one, JUST so that I can have one tool (or a couple of them) to spit out a ready program :)
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Re: OPIA - A full OOP language for z80
« Reply #10 on: July 15, 2011, 11:39:09 am »
Humm. Java-based assembler. I don't happen to have one on hand, but I would love to work on one. I would also love to work on this compiler thing.
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Re: OPIA - A full OOP language for z80
« Reply #11 on: July 15, 2011, 11:49:31 am »
Language aside, I can talk compiler-theory all day :) ... I have my own technique for Tokenization (inspired by Java's approach to enums) that I think is the stuff :P ... it seems like a small part of the process, but using final class instances for tokens gives you some solid tools that can make a compiler amazingly fast (and cleaner)! :D
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Re: OPIA - A full OOP language for z80
« Reply #12 on: July 15, 2011, 12:15:20 pm »
I love compiler-theory. It's so interesting. I prefer making class instances for each statement, but I think your way might be better, I'm just a little worried that it wouldn't have support for class names and such (you really need instances for that). But I think a middle-ground could be achieved.

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Re: OPIA - A full OOP language for z80
« Reply #13 on: July 15, 2011, 12:30:26 pm »
OOP? For z80?
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Re: OPIA - A full OOP language for z80
« Reply #14 on: July 15, 2011, 01:19:19 pm »
Oh yeah JC, this is it.  Since 2004, my mind has been on this topic, and I've read 1 tutorial, 1 amazing book, skimmed a bunch of others, but mostly spent countless hours/days/months at a time pouring over various aspects of an OOP language for z80, and compiler techniques ... this is happening ... maybe not tomorrow, but it will happen :)

...instances and tokens... Yes. This is why I did not actually use the Java ENUM; but my Token class contained a whole list of static final instances for all the keywords and operators, and some "signals" used by the compiler; For identifiers ("names"), it would store an internal tree of Token objects for each identifier it found. When it encountered one, a method would feed it into the tree, and if it existed already, it would return THAT instance; otherwise it would make a new instance and put it in the tree, and return that. That way, comparing names, keywords, operators ... anything... was a matter of straight-up reference comparison ( == rather than .equals). For numbers and strings (and other literals) though, I just let it make new ones. Anyway, each token object contained a final int value that flagged what "kind" of token it was, another final int that stored bit-flags (or for number tokens, stored the numeric value), and a string value that contained the actual string-value of the token. That might sound like a lot of work, but each final instance is declared with the right values in the first place, and identifiers get certain values set ... and then there were methods that looked at that kind of information, so you could just get a token and ask "is it an operator? is it an overloadable operator ... with 1 or 2 arguments (or both)? is it a keyword? is it a control-flow construct? is it numeric?" ... etc, and those checks would not have to check if it was one of some 50 tokens, but just a simple value or a bit or something.

As for OOP on everything else, I had OOP constructs to represent classes, functions, variables, blocks of code, statements, expressions, etc., so pretty quick I could get a whole structure of a program into a very easy to manage tree-like structure, and easily go "Ok, let's look at all the classes and make sure they don't have any circular inheritance, and that they behave together". I had constructs for DataTypes too, which were flexible (polymorphic; some were just primitive Tokens; others were classes; others were complexities of arrays of things). One thing I may do differently this time though ... I went back and made everything that could be the "entity" referred to by an identifier to inherit from "Entity", so that expressions and variables and so on had direct references to "entities". Then I could go back through and replace all the references to Identifier tokens with the actual things they were referencing, without damaging the structure of the parse-tree ... that was actually a bit of a nightmare, because it had to be in a very careful order so that one could identify inner/inherited namespaces properly ("a.b.c"); and the way it handled "private" and "protected" stuff was a bit interesting (it used the "invisible" technique, so things were suddenly "undefined" rather than just restricted). ... But I've done more study about ways to use a symbol table, and I think it would be fine to just stick with that :)
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