[viff-devel] Small VIFF language parser

[Martin Geisler]

Ivan Bjerre Damgaard <ivan at daimi.au.dk> writes:

> Quoting Martin Geisler <mg at daimi.au.dk>:
>
>> Hi everybody,
>>
>> We have talked on and off about making a front-end compiler for
>> VIFF and today I figured that I would try making such a guy...
>
> This is nice, and indeed is exactly what we have talked about doing
> for some time. If for no other reason, because we promised to do
> this in CACE :-)

Yeah, I just happened to read an article about writing an interpreter
or compiler in Python and then I figured that this was a good starting
point :-)

> Also, we have a new PhD student from August, Sigurd Meldgaard,
> co-supervised by me and Michael. Sigurd plans to do exactly this
> sort of thing we are talking about here, so it's important to get
> him integrated in this work asap.

Cool, that is great news! I've Cc'ed him on this mail just in case he
wants to get a head start on his PhD... :-)

Sigurd: the entire thread is here:

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.cryptography.viff.devel/309

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Martin Geisler