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- From: hopkins@turing.ac.uk (Don Hopkins)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme
- Subject: Re: Information on DYLAN language
- Message-ID: <HOPKINS.92Jul25163954@delta9.turing.ac.uk>
- Date: 25 Jul 92 15:39:54 GMT
- References: <2083@mitech.com> <691@data.rain.com> <2129@mitech.com>
- <1992Jul21.060328.4378@daffy.cs.wisc.edu>
- Sender: usenet@turing.ac.uk (Usenet for nntp)
- Organization: The Turing Institute, Ltd.
- Lines: 20
- In-Reply-To: quale@saavik.cs.wisc.edu's message of 21 Jul 92 06:03:28 GMT
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- quale@saavik.cs.wisc.edu (Douglas E. Quale) writes:
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- gjc@mitech.com (George J. Carrette) writes:
- >In article <691@data.rain.com>, kend@data.rain.com (Ken Dickey) writes:
- >
- >> [Seriously, there is a lot of deep stuff here. But hardly unknown!]
- >
- >No deeper than MIT LISPMACHINE microcode and its operating system,
- >I can assure you. Lots of reinvention and re-syntaxing of previously
- >implemented stuff.
- >
- >-gjc
-
- I disagree. Efficient implementations on stock hardware are a different
- kettle of fish. MIT Lispmachine microcode was a dead end.
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- So are SPARC and MIPS machines, designed to run portable assembly
- languages like C.
-
- -Don
-