PSDC (WIP)

IUT de Lannion Pseudocode compiler (transpiler).

Tools

VSCode Pseudocode extension

Roadmap

Target languages

• C
• C#
• CimPU
• Java
• JavaScript
• Pascal
• Perl
• PHP
• Python
• Shell
• SQL
• LLVM

Language features

Notation: bold → underway

• Alternatives
• Loops
  • For
  • While
  • Do..While
  • Repeat..Until
• Procedures
• Functions
• Structures
• selon
• Fix syntax error handling
• Lvalues
• Constant folding for type checking and division by zero
• Optional brackets in control structures
• Benchmarks
• Formal grammar
• Brace initialization (see TD14 ex 1)
• More static analysis
• finPour keyword (equivalent to fin)
• String literal escape sequences
• Lowercase boolean operators
• Modules
• Numeroted control stuctures (si1, si2, si3)
• File handling (low priority)
• Preprocessor (limitations of the language)
  • ecrireEcran newlines
• GNU-compliant message formatting
• CLI (use nuget package)
  • custom header
  • -d, --documentation : none, all, file
  • Global preprocessor directives
  • Formatting customization
• Tests
  • Errors
  • Valid code
• Documentation
  • CLI
  • Language standard
• Initial release
• Self-hosting (rewrite in Pseudocode)
• VSCode tooling
  • Debugger
  • Language server

C output configuration

• Non-null-terminated-string-proof format strings: width specifier for lengthed strings (usually useless since null-terminated, but could be useful if non null-terminated strings are used)
• Type mappings
  • réel → float, double, long double?
  • entier → short, int, long?
  • caractère → char, tchar_t, wchar_t?
• Parameter names in prototypes?
• Doxygen documentation skeleton?
• i++ or ++i