Re: The compilation approach in modern languages

Ivan Boldyrev <boldyrev@cgitftp.uiggm.nsc.ru>
18 Feb 2005 22:50:50 -0500

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From: Ivan Boldyrev <boldyrev@cgitftp.uiggm.nsc.ru>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 18 Feb 2005 22:50:50 -0500
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Posted-Date: 18 Feb 2005 22:50:50 EST

On 9023 day of my life Ivan Boldyrev wrote:
> On 9020 day of my life Tony Finch wrote:
>> [For that matter, people have been compiling Lisp to machine code for
>> about 45 years. -John]
>
> Yes, but you have to provide compiler at runtime.
>
> [Well, sure. Lots of languages can compile at runtime. -John]


That's news! I know only about Lisp dialects.


Perhaps, (Common) Lisp/Scheme is different from them because
COMPILE-FILE is *standard* function.


--
Ivan Boldyrev
[In a lot of cases like perl the compilation isn't particularly obvious
to the user. -John]

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