[Gambas-devel] Re: Using GAMBAS for running Visual Basic projects

[Ahmed Kamal]

One would also think about targeting the Parrot VM.

http://www.parrotcode.org/

Eliminates all concerns about following some closed source VM.

BR

Richard Stallman wrote:
>You seem to have considered two possible approaches: running VB byte
>codes (which is hard since they are not documented), and "translating
>the projects to GAMBAS projects".  Those words suggest sone kind of
>hand translation of source code, which also sounds hard.
>
>The natural approach, which I think would be easiest, would be to
>write an alternate parser that reads VB programs and generates GAMBAS
>byte codes.  How about considering that?
>
>By the way, how come you're using a special byte code for GAMBAS?
>Would it work to use Java byte codes?  I think that would be a lot
>more convenient for the users, not to need a special byte code
>interpreter.  In addition, it would be less work for you, since you
>would not have to maintain the bytecode interpreter.  Does this idea
>make sense?
>
>
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