[erlang-questions] Erlang & .NET

[Serge Aleynikov]

Actually I found this project, that helped building an Erlang term 
parser in C# in less than an hour:

	http://www.devincook.com/goldparser/

Serge

Serge Aleynikov wrote:
> Actually this doesn't address the problem I stated, as otp.net project 
> already has functions dealing with encoding/decoding terms to/from 
> external binary format (similar to what erlocaml does).
> 
> What I need is a .NET function with this signature:
> 
> 	string_to_eterm(string()) -> term()
> 
> 	I.e. the .NET code analogous to:
> 	{ok, Tokens} = erl_scan:string(Str),
> 	{ok, Term}   = erl_parse:parse_term(Tokens),
> 	Term.
> 
> I understand that writing an Erlang term parser is probably easier in 
> OCaml / F# than in .NET, but before spending time on writing one, I 
> figured I'd first ask the mailing list...
> 
> Serge
> 
> Ulf Wiger wrote:
>> You could stay within the FP fold and port the OCaml
>> Erlang term-to-caml type implementation in ErlOcaml
>> to F#.  (:
>>
>> http://code.google.com/p/erlocaml/source/browse/trunk/lib/ocamerl/ocamerl/eterm.ml
>>
>> I have no intuition for whether or not this is a good idea...
>>
>> BR,
>> Ulf W
>>
>>
>> 2008/9/27 Serge Aleynikov <saleyn@REDACTED>:
>>> In a recent need to have a rich UI client for some of my UNIX processes,
>>> this week I was playing with the otp.net contribution (from jungerl)
>>> that implements an Erlang node in .NET.  Given limited experience with
>>> .NET I was quite impressed with how easy it was to get a node running in
>>> .NET that exchanges terms with the Erlang VM.  After making some
>>> improvements to otp.net I ran into a need to be able to have a shell in
>>> the UI to execute ad-hoc commands on a distributed node running
>>> elsewhere.  I understand that this can be accomplished by passing a
>>> string to be evaluated to the Erlang node that would do the parsing and
>>> execution, but I'd rather have the parser on the C# side.
>>>
>>> This brings the question of whether anyone has an open-source
>>> implementation of the Erlang term parser in .NET.
>>>
>>> Serge
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