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Set in stone a number of simple, but culturally important, programs in as many programming languages as we can find, while there are still serious practicioners around to consult.
So, for example: ¨Hello World¨, number-base converters and null drivers in 6502, 6809, 68000, 32010,... Ada, ARM,
Algol, AMPLE, BASIC, c, c++, COBOL, FORTH, FORTRAN, occam, LISP, LOGO, Pascal, Prolog, Z80 etc
Perhaps they should be placed alongside the Georgia Guidestones
Wiki: Georgia Guidestones
http://en.wikipedia...Georgia_Guidestones
[Dub, Dec 11 2011]
Oooh, look rosettacode.org
http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Hello_world
(Ripped from Wiki) Rosetta Code was created in 2007 by Michael Mol. The Rosetta Code web repository illustrates how desired functionality is implemented very differently in various programming paradigms,[4][5] and how "the same" task is accomplished in different programming languages [Dub, Mar 21 2021]
ANTLR: ANother Tool for Language Recognition
https://www.antlr.org/
I've not used ANTLR specifically, but have worked on/am working on something similar - albeit focusing on converting from one language to (initially) one (but now two) other languages. The parser --> AST --> Code flow seems to be the way to go, with an AST as the rosetta "nubbin" that can be used to generate content in many different output languages. [zen_tom, Mar 22 2021]
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It's important to hang on to the past; I always operate
under the 'watch where that lands' principle of innovation. |
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I thought this was going to be a program that helped me
learn programming languaes. Which would have been
helpful when I was trying to learn FORTRAN. In fact cannot
bun this knowing that FORTRAN would be immortalized in
stone. |
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//while there are still serious practicioners around to
consult// |
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Conveniently, even the most arcane of languages still have
a number of hobbyist practicioners. Check out
projecteuler.net; and even that barely scratches the
surface of "why would someone bother maintaining skills in
that...?". |
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This is brilliant, but you should also include archival-quality
instructions for building the drives and other devices needed to
access all digital storage media ever used. |
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[+] but only if it includes some of Ada Lovelace's code
for the Babbage engine. |
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Yup, and not just Hello World, but John Conway's Game of Life. a Turin machine, ... |
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Obfuscated versions could be engraved into the Alps/Rockies/Himalayas. |
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That would be something that moves progressively
along a wide cloth tape, gradually imprinting the
image of a beardy bloke? |
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I discovered formal language theory really late in
life, but assuming a language can be expressed as a
CFG (context-free grammar), then it can be
decomposed into a series of production rules that
can be used both to parse, but crucially also, to
generate statements in a given language. If you can
map your production rules into an Abstract Syntax Tree, and back
again, then you should have the basis for a
transpiler from one language into another. Much
easier to theorise about than actually do - but the
groundwork is there. There are some limited
transpilers out there, mostly I understand that map
to and from JavaScript. |
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