[Coco] Re: Portal-9 to compile HLA source to 6809/CoCo!

[Mannequin*]

On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 21:25:33 -0600, Roger Taylor wrote:

> The author of HLA, Randall Hyde, just confirmed that HLA 2.x will generate 
> intermediate code and allow plug in modules to support any kind of 
> assembler.  The stock assemblers are, ofcourse, PC-based and for the 
> Pentium line, but soon we'll be able to cross-compile/assemble HLA source 
> to the CoCo!
> 
> "The plan is to allow this, yes. The macro facilities
> will be sufficiently improved to allow you to easily
> write a parser for a different assembly language (and
> emit the corresponding byte values for the instructions)."
> 
> So, Portal-9 will soon get its first cross compiler that targets the 
> 6809/6309/CoCo/Vectrex.  This is great!
> 
> I won't get too much into HLA, but it is very powerful, and allows some of 
> the most common structure schemes used in the popular languages.  If you 
> know C, you will learn HLA easily, and it is much more readable than C, 
> unless you really get into some advanced stuff like big macros, thunks, 
> code generation control, etc.
...

Mmmph... But what about C?!!? ;)

Actually, at one point I looked in to HLA, but didn't really like the way
it "felt." Then again, that was some years ago. How well spread is HLA?
What's the homepage for it?

/me goes to Google...

-M.

PS. I have no idea what this X-Face will show... Rodney gave it to me. :)