Page, Bill writes: > On Wednesday, August 31, 2005 3:45 AM Martin Rubey wrote:
> ??? Why would you want a compiler written in lisp for the Aldor > language when there already is an Aldor compiler written in C? There are (at least) two reasons: * it is not too unlikely that Aldor will not become free software * it is always a good thing to have several implementations of the *same* language. Mind that I'm not talking about dialects, it is important that the implementations strive to satisfy the *same* semantics. A good example is the variety of Ansi Common Lisp implementations around. > I do not see how it can possibly be "simple". I suspect that it is *relatively* easy to write a *simple* compiler (i.e., no optimizations etc.) for Aldor in Lisp. Martin _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
