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From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: GNU Extension Language Plans
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References: <9410190420.AA02904@mole.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <38bihm$4vk@info.epfl.ch> <id.LH3E1.QR1@nmti.com> <38grtb$g2q@csli.stanford.edu>
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 1994 22:34:59 GMT
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In article <38grtb$g2q@csli.stanford.edu>,
Juergen Wagner <gandalf@Csli.Stanford.EDU> wrote:
> In article <id.LH3E1.QR1@nmti.com>, Peter da Silva <peter@nmti.com> wrote:
> >In article <38bihm$4vk@info.epfl.ch>,
> >Stefan Monnier <monnier@di.epfl.ch> wrote:
> >> That's why I think using scheme as an intermediate language is not
> >> a good idea. I think a lower level language would be better, forcing
> >> a compile no matter what language you write the thing in.

> >I can't agree. A compile step automatically makes for a lousy extension
> >language, unless all the compilers are built into the binary.

> However, if we view compilation as a process similar to
> byte-compilation in Smalltalk, Xerox LISP, or Emacs LISP, this makes
> sense. In fact, it would support the idea of platform independence as

Which is what I mean by "all compilers are built into the binary". Now
your bytecode is, as I've said, an implementation detail. Do you really
mean that every program that uses GNUel should include Scheme and Rush
and Perl and Elisp?
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