[Barrelfish] [Barrelfish-users] Design question

[C K Kashyap]

Hi Timothy,
If I understand right FoF is a model for "C" and that one could describe
his/her intent in FoF in a concise manner and corresponding "C" could be
generated. Could the commonalities under various dirs under arch  have been
abstracted into a DSL?

Can we not have all the source code in DSL's alone?

Regards,
Kashyap

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 8:02 AM, Timothy Roscoe <troscoe at inf.ethz.ch> wrote:

>
> Hi Kashyap,
>
> I'm not sure what you mean - in general you need to have some general
> purpose language to glue everything together.  Our use of DSLs is very
> pragmatic: we generally use one when we think there's a chance it will
> make our like easier.  There is a chance some will converge (both
> Mackerel and Hamlet need to specify physical data layout, for
> example), but we'll always have C.
>
>  -- Timothy Roscoe
>
> At Tue, 9 Feb 2010 15:48:45 +0530, C K Kashyap <ckkashyap at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I was a little surprised to see s o much of C code in the source base. Is
> the
> > plan to eventually have code only in DSEL's?
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Kashyap
>



-- 
Regards,
Kashyap
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