Re: C interpreter in Lisp/scheme/python

[bolega <gnuist006@gmail.com>]

On Jul 13, 11:18 pm, geremy condra <debat...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 11:01 PM, bolega <gnuist...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Jun 20, 9:31 pm, Richard Fateman <fate...@cs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> >> Define Macro wrote:
> >> > On Jun 13, 7:07 pm, bolega <gnuist...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >> I am trying to compare LISP/Scheme/Python for their expressiveness.
>
> >> >> For this, I propose a vanilla C interpreter. I have seen a book which
> >> >> writes C interpreter in C.
>
> >> >> The criteria would be the small size and high readability of the code.
>
> >> >> Are there already answers anywhere ?
>
> >> Sure.  Lots of texts on compilers provide exercises which, in one way or
> >> another suggest how to write an interpreter and perhaps a compiler too
> >> for some language.  Anyone taking a course on compilers is likely to
> >> have followed such exercises in order to pass the course.  Some
> >> instructors are enlightened enough to allow students to pick the
> >> implementation language.
>
> >> Ask any such instructor.
>
> > Beware, he does not tell the readers the financial details. This is
> > what he wrote to me by email.
>
> > <quote>
> > I would be willing to meet with you here in Berkeley to educate you on
> > these matters at a consulting rate of  $850 per hour, with a minimum
> > of 8 hours.
>
> > RJF
> > </quote>
>
> He's Berkeley's former CS chair and was implementing lisp before
> common lisp was a twinkle in anybody's eye. His time is valuable.
>
> Geremy Condra

This makes some sense. He replied on the newsgroup in a lengthy post
that there are sufficient resources out there giving hint that no one
need help me out. Then I was called "lazy" in one email and tersely
given JUST the last name of an author who has many books each many
100s pages, when I asked for a relevant book, as if i am a scholar in
the field, although he did spend lots of words on irrelevant and
unbeneficial things which diminished my enthusiasm. Now, I find out
from you that he has/had a business concern or interest in a company
that is writing/wrote lisp interpreter in C. Correct me if I am making
an error. I dont want to think deprecatingly of any good soul but this
is what i experienced.