On Sep 4, 2009, at 04:23 , Hugh Aguilar wrote: > I agree with Slava that Joy has a fundamental problem in that lists of > instructions and lists of data are the same thing, which seriously > complicates compilation. This is the same problem that Lisp has.
Not sure which Lisp you are talking about but in both, Common Lisp and Scheme, lists of instructions (code) and lists of data (forms) are not the same: code can be executed, forms must be evaluated. There is no problem in compiling Common Lisp; virtually all existing CL implementations have compilers, some don't (didn't) even have interpreters (i.e., EVAL first (byte-)compiles forms, then executes the resulting code). -- Cheers, Michael ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Factor-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/factor-talk
