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- From: kers@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Chris Dollin)
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 08:46:17 GMT
- Subject: Re: lvars and standards (was: Re: List and Vector Syntax)
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- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK.
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- In-Reply-To: ray@philmtl.philips.ca's message of 9 Jan 93 01:39:23 GMT
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- In article ... ray@philmtl.philips.ca (Ray Dunn) writes:
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- Having been hacking in 'C' for the last ..cough.. years I can't understand
- why there wasn't a 'C' implementation of POP done a long time ago.
-
- I hope the work on Pepper is being done in a portable fashion.
-
- The present (bootstrap) implementation is done by via a byte-coded
- interpreter written in ANSI C, and appears to run on an Arc under
- RISC OS and HP9000/300s, /400s, and 7|8-00's with only minor tweaks
- to the configuration file. Steve and I are occasionally working on
- a Mac port, and if someone was really convincing reason I'd look at
- doing it on a PC.
-
- Native-code compilers are another matter; I intend to do an Arc one,
- but the other platforms, well, SOP.
-
- [Performance of the interpreter isn't too hot, but there's plenty of
- room for improvement yet.]
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- Regards, | ``The French teacher does not threaten. She says, | Teen
- Kers. | "s'il vous plait"''. | Agent
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