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Re: dylan availability
- To: Bob Kerns <rwk@crl.dec.com>
- Subject: Re: dylan availability
- From: twl@cs.brown.edu (Ted "Theodore" W. Leung)
- Date: Tue, 29 Sep 92 15:15:54 -0400
- Cc: alms@cambridge.apple.com, kevin@scic.intel.com (Kevin Altis), info-dylan@cambridge.apple.com, dylan-builders@cambridge.apple.com
- In-reply-to: <9209291903.AA05326@taunton.crl.dec.com>
Bob Kerns writes:
> But this old compiler writer thinks Dylan would be a bit easier to
> write compilers for than a lot of them.
What did you have in mind when you said this? The only thing that I
can think of that's a little easier is that there's trivial syntax
analysis. The runtime system need to be fairly complicated (if you're
not embedding in lisp), and all the generic function and multiple
inheritance stuff should add complexity to a compiler. Just look what
happened between C and C++....
Ted