From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: bolega Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: C interpreter in Lisp/scheme/python Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 22:17:05 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <16a7e301-2e85-47eb-971e-79acc4e076a6__22486.535277176$1291846098$gmane$org@b35g2000yqi.googlegroups.com> References: <9969f3c0-73e3-48e8-b4df-734c64bd00c0@t10g2000yqg.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291846098 19481 80.91.229.12 (8 Dec 2010 22:08:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 22:08:18 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 08 23:08:12 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQSB8-00066r-A2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 23:08:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55688 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQSAs-0004ND-4r for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 17:07:46 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!b35g2000yqi.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help, comp.lang.lisp, comp.lang.scheme, comp.lang.c, comp.lang.python Original-Lines: 51 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 75.28.99.147 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1279171026 11590 127.0.0.1 (15 Jul 2010 05:17:06 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 05:17:06 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: b35g2000yqi.googlegroups.com; posting-host=75.28.99.147; posting-account=REkl4woAAABFXaU7nL79XtGpnmNCQ415 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6,gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:179761 comp.lang.lisp:290285 comp.lang.scheme:87210 comp.lang.c:978031 comp.lang.python:638162 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:76104 Archived-At: On Jul 13, 11:18 pm, geremy condra wrote: > On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 11:01 PM, bolega wrote: > > On Jun 20, 9:31 pm, Richard Fateman wrote: > >> Define Macro wrote: > >> > On Jun 13, 7:07 pm, bolega 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. > > > > > 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 > > > > 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.