On Monday 22 Aug 2005 16:37, Alexey N. Solofnenko wrote: > > A Java VM, compiler and/or interpreter can be written in Haskell, as much > > as a Haskell compiler/interpreter can be written in Java. I don't really > > understand the argument of why this is 'a feature of Java'.
> I should have added "efficiently". I think there are enough examples of functional languages being used to implement efficient compilers... ... and of those compilers generating efficient code. > Generic languages, on the other hand, allow writing higher > level languages. Again, high-level languages can also be (and often are) written in high level languages, rather than something like Java. > Good scripting languages can use Java primitive directly allowing for a > full interaction between high level and Java code. God forbid anyone take this definition as fact. > I use this feature all the > time with languages like Jython and Groovy. Great. But I wonder if this talk of implementing languages in Java wouldn't be more on-topic in the mailing lists of those projects? Martin _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.abridgegame.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
