David- I was part of a DLR roundtable discussion at CommunityOne day at JavaOne yesterday, so I think I can speak to this from the bleeding edge. A few points to consider:
1. The DLR is alpha. I'm bullish on it, and it's very promising, but there are quite a few rough edges and things that just aren't worked out yet. There's no consensus on threads, for instance. Give it time. 2. The DLR means a lot more than just being able to run something in a browser. It promises cross-language compatibility, the ability to run modules written in one language within the context of another language. 3. There's never been a jit compiler for xtalk. Not that it couldn't be done, but that brings headaches of its own. The whole "short path / long path" thing, for one, is something that I don't think has ever been considered for xtalk syntax. 4. Peter Fisk's Smalltalk compiler is "capable of processing arithmetic expressions". That's still a far cry from a full-blown Smalltalk compiler. I'm reasonably certain that a compiler that would process "put 2 + 3" in Transcript wouldn't be that hard to build. But there's a lot more to the infrastructure than that. 5. We can't all be Peter Fisk. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
