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

Paul Robinson <TDARCOS@MCIMAIL.COM> writes:
>[APL compilation is practical only with powerful desktop machines.]


This is a bit of a nitpick, perhaps, but APL compilation isn't new:


%A Thomas W. Christopher
%A Ralph W. Wallace
%T Compiling Optimized Array Operations at Run-Time
%J APL 86 Conferance Proceedings
%C Manchester, England
%D July 1986
%P 136-141


%A Graham C. Driscoll
%A Donald L. Orth
%T Collecting Informatin about APL Variables during Interpretation
%R IBM RC 15366 (#68406)
%D 10 January 1990


%A Leo J. Guibas
%A Douglas K. Wyatt
%T Compilation and Delayed Evaluation in APL
%J Fifth Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages
(POPL-5)
%D 1978
%P 1-8


%A Ronald L. Johnston
%T The Dynamic Incremental Compiler of APL\e3000
%I Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
%J APL Quote Quad
%V 9
%N 4
%D June 1979
%P 82-87


%A H. J. Saal
%A Z. Weiss
%T A Software High Performance APL Interpreter
%J Quote Quad
%V 9
%N 4
%D June 1979
%P 74-81


Also, Tim Budd had a paper on static APL compilation and I recall that
the algorithms were fairly tractable.


;-D on ( Parsing programming with a pro grammer ) Pardo
[As a class project, I wrote a compiler in Trac that compiled a subset of APL
into Basic in 1972. Didn't use any array temporaries, either. -John]
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