From: Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org>
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: My Guile Wishlist
Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 23:57:52 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k7rqtzfj.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ofhgu0jp.fsf@gaff.bad-people-of-the-future.san-francisco.ca.us> (Evan Prodromou's message of "Fri, 22 Mar 2002 06:42:02 -0800")
Evan Prodromou <evan@glug.org> writes:
> * I wish that Guile had a single mechanism, using lex-and-yacc-style
> syntax, to define emulators for other languages. I'm not
> particularly crazy about the whole language-emulation hoohaw, and
> I'd never, ever use it, but it's driving me nuts (arr) seeing very
> smart people waste their time on one-off emulation tools. I'd really
> love to see them become trivial -- or at least semi-trivial --
> efforts.
You and me both. Very strange that :>
I've heard good things about Zebu, but never used it. It's here along
with many others...
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/scheme-repository/code.lang.html
> * I wish that Guile had a single, _core_ compilation feature --
> whether the compilation is into bytecode, or native code, or is
> just-in-time compilation using GNU Lightning. Not that I love
> compiled code oh-so-much, but again because I'm tired of seeing all
> these one-off side projects that get bit rot and die.
This is *DEFNIITELY* on the (virtual) list -- but after talking with
Marius, I tend to agree that doing it "right" will probably take a
little bit of time. It likely a non-trivial shift from the purely
interpreted system that we have now, to something structured in a
fashion more amenable to compilation.
--
Rob Browning
rlb @defaultvalue.org, @linuxdevel.com, and @debian.org
Previously @cs.utexas.edu
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-18 22:13 My Guile Wishlist Evan Prodromou
2002-03-19 19:10 ` Rob Browning
2002-03-19 19:26 ` Evan Prodromou
2002-03-19 19:56 ` Neil Jerram
2002-03-19 20:31 ` Robert A. Uhl
2002-03-20 0:13 ` Evan Prodromou
2002-03-19 20:14 ` Neil Jerram
2002-03-19 22:27 ` Evan Prodromou
2002-03-20 13:18 ` rm
2002-04-03 8:51 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-03-19 21:53 ` MJ Ray
2002-04-03 6:58 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-03-22 14:42 ` Evan Prodromou
2002-04-02 5:57 ` Rob Browning [this message]
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