On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 8:53 PM, Tracy Harms <[email protected]> wrote: > http://blog.sigfpe.com/2009/05/three-projections-of-doctor-futamura.html > > I found this to be a particularly interesting passage: > > "If we have a specialiser we never need to make a compiler again. We > need only design interpreters that we can automatically convert to > compilers. In general it's easier to write interpreters than compilers > and so in principle this makes life easier for programmers. It also > allows us to compartmentalise the building of compilers."
I wonder how he plans on dealing with the halting problem? And I also wonder if we will eventually be able to judge the relative merits of his claims on first hand experience? -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
