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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to")
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Tobias C. Rittweiler |
Subject: |
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to") |
Date: |
Thu, 1 Jul 2004 16:25:14 +0200 |
On Thursday, July 1, 2004 at 3:44:57 PM,
Charles Duffy <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 08:43, Tobias C. Rittweiler wrote:
> > On Monday, June 28, 2004 at 9:55:09 PM,
> > Tom Lord <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > > Furth would become a virtual machine for the programming language
> > > of "/bin/sed".
> >
> > Why exactly do you consider furth more suitable for such mini
> > languages than the macro-system of scheme (or CL)?
>
> Granted, I'm not Tom -- but my understanding is that the mini-languages
> will be compiled via a subset of Pika (hence providing the
> macro-language support and such) into Furth. Think of Furth as an
> implementation detail that folks can expose (if they want to) to make
> things (like alternate language bindings) easier.
I actually grokked that one aspect of furth is to serve as a UFLL
(Universal Foreign Language Layer), well kind of. But I read his mail so
that he talked about writing a /bin/sed in furth and not making /bin/sed
using furth.
I think I simply misread; rereading just the part I quoted from him,
reveals that he actually wants furth to "become a _virtual_machine_ for
[...] /bin/sed".
Tom, this aspect certainly looks *interesting* and useful, but I yet
have to mediate about the *practical* usefulness, because I can imagine
a loss when it comes down to actual /integration/ (note: this is clearly
not the same as combination). Did you already collect insights wrt this?
-- tcr (address@hidden) ``Ho chresim'eidos uch ho poll'eidos sophos''
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to"), (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to"), Tom Lord, 2004/07/01
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to"), Tom Lord, 2004/07/01
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to"), tomas, 2004/07/01
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to"), tomas, 2004/07/01
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to"), Jan Hudec, 2004/07/01
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to"), Tobias C. Rittweiler, 2004/07/01
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to"), Tom Lord, 2004/07/01
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to"), Scott Parish, 2004/07/01
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to"), Pierce T.Wetter III, 2004/07/01