Re: Scripting vs. Programming language vs. 4GL?

ch+@cs.cmu.edu (Christopher Hoover)
Mon, 30 Aug 1993 00:20:23 GMT

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Newsgroups: comp.compilers
From: ch+@cs.cmu.edu (Christopher Hoover)
Keywords: interpreter, Lisp
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
References: 93-08-096 93-08-099
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 00:20:23 GMT

Lutz Prechelt <prechelt@ira.uka.de> wrote:
>And the borderlines are also not sharp:
>Think of Common Lisp which nobody would call a scripting languages,
>although it is at most partially compiled.


If Common Lisp can be ``at most partially compiled,'' then C, C++,
Algol, etc. can be ``at most partially compiled.''


There is a (somewhat widespread?) misconception that lispy languages
cannot be ``fully'' compiled. While it is true that you cannot
completely lose runtime dispatch in Common Lisp without proper
user-supplied declarations, all of the usual aspects of compilation
are still applicable.


-- Chris.
(ch@lks.csi.com)
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