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I don’t think a full Scheme implementation is as slow as Python in general. What I’m hung up on is the claim that it’s so absolutely trivial to write a language

I don’t think a full Scheme implementation is as slow as Python in general. What I’m hung up on is the claim that it’s so absolutely trivial to write a language implementation faster than Python that basically anybody at any skill level could do it in a weekend, and still have time for Sunday afternoon bocce.

pjmlp 4y ago
Start with, "An Incremental Approach to Compiler Construction" http://scheme2006.cs.uchicago.edu/11-ghuloum.pdf http://scheme2006.cs.uchicago.edu/11-ghuloum.pdf