Am Dienstag, den 25.04.2006, 15:16 -0400 schrieb John Cowan: > > As for Chicken, is there a VM? I'm guessing not, because for speed > > you just use the compiler, and therefore not a lot of emphasis would > > be placed on making the interpreter the fastest. > > No, Chicken does not have a VM.
If chicken has no VM, at least we two have fundamentally different assumption how a VM is defined. The VM of chicken is just neither a single data structure, nor (the even worse definition) an executable interpreting some byte sequence. It's a calling convention, threads data structure and a few global variables. > > IMO somebody needs to write a better editor for S-expressions. Good > > XML editors are also nontrivial. > > "Good" XML editors are impossible, because they have to serve mutually > contradictory goals. The only hope is to have a variety of adequate > editors with different purposes. Too true. There are probably few things under the sun, which qualify for GUI-Tool and not for editor. As soon as you bind them to their data format, they become bitmap-editors, xml-editors, ini-editors, etc. adding converters, what's the point of an XML-editor vs. S-expression editor? /Jörg _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
