Thanks Mark. In general you seem to be supporting the potential of this path? It seems at this stage more promising than other stabs at this no - say Open Scripting Architecture (OSA), and yes it means a lot more than just a browser plugin - though i guess this would get most peoples attention here?
A question about "writing a transcript compiler for DLR"? What does this involve - starting from scratch in C# or if you were RunRev and already presumably had some code basis for a compiler would you be able to use that directly - I guess not. Secondly if it means starting from scratch would that mean anyone could legally undertake such a thing - that is to write a minimal Transcript compiler for the DLR. Its not something I am picturing doing - but I am curious :) On 09/05/07, Mark Wieder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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.
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