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Several Scheme implementations as well as some lesser-known small Lisps qualify. I think writing a new general-purpose language is something every programmer s
by Zak 17y ago
Several Scheme implementations as well as some lesser-known small Lisps qualify.
I think writing a new general-purpose language is something every programmer should try at least once, but don't fool yourself; there's probably an existing language that does what you want.
Now, back to work on that language idea I can't get out of my head involving pervasive generic functions....
- wingo 17y agoI would like that language. (I say, as I work on getting compute-effective-method working in Guile...)
- Zak 17y agoI'm half-seriously considering implementing it. The basic form I have in mind is something that looks a bit like Clojure and runs on Parrot. I'm not attached to either of those ideas, but this being 2009, I think it should have some support for parallelism and access to libraries out of the gate.
- kingkongreveng_ 17y agochicken scheme is the only other language I can think of that compiles to C code. He is not making an interpreted language. It compiles down to machine code that runs directly; not vm bytecode.
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