Re: Interpreters and (math) speed

I Don'T Know What You Mean By "Huge Number" For The Built-In Math And
Graphics Primitives, But I Certainly Like The Idea.


There Are Several Reasons Why An Interpreter Is Better Than A Compiler
In Certain Situations, And I Think Your Idea Could Be A Moderately
Great Success If The System Supported Console-Interaction, Where The
User Could Query For Some Operations, And Immediately See The
Results. And For This, An Interpreter Is Certainly Adjustable. I
Would Certainly Implement A Program That Is Capable Of Distinguishing
Between At Least A Couple Of Real Types That Could Be Used For
Variables Or Expressions. String-Support Would Be Nice Also, In Case
You Come Up With Some 3d Text Rendering Stuff, Which I Think A Lot Of
People Would Like. I Don'T Think That High Math Functions Would
Complicate Your Thing Too Much. For One Thing, As Far As I Could Tell
You Are Wanting To Design A System Where You Specify A Bunch Of
Things, And Then The Computer Draws The Output, Either In The Form Of
A Graph, A Function, An Object, Etc. All The Math Stuff Is Hidden In
Your Implementation, Unless You Let The User Specify His Or Her Own
Math Routines For Some Operations. Either Way, I Think It Would Be A
Nice Program To Work On.


adam granicz.








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