Re: Techniques for writing an interpreter

"Mark Harrison" <markh@usai.asiainfo.com>
20 Mar 1998 01:24:58 -0500

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From: "Mark Harrison" <markh@usai.asiainfo.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 20 Mar 1998 01:24:58 -0500
Organization: gte.net
References: 98-03-032 98-03-098 98-03-141 98-03-147 98-03-159
Keywords: interpreter, Scheme

Harry G. George wrote in message 98-03-159...
>Is there any consensus forming about GNU's Guile? I don't see it


For a while, it seemed to be handicapped by being designed to support
all the other scripting languages (e.g. Write a Tcl->Scheme
translator, Perl->Scheme translator, etc.).


I think that Scheme faces an uphill battle as a generally accepted
scripting language for the same reason that it faces an uphill battle
as a generally accepted general-purpose language. A relatively small
number of people understand it well enough to appreciate it, but the
majority of people seem to feel that it is weird or otherwise
unpleasant to use.


Mark.


markh@usai.asiainfo.com
Mark Harrison at AsiaInfo Computer Networks,
Beijing, China
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