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Re: Language Implementation Languages

To: "Brent Fulgham" <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: Language Implementation Languages
From: address@hidden (Michael Sperber [Mr.Preprocessor])
Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 09:10:29 +0200
Cc: "Peter J. Wasilko, Esq." <address@hidden>, <address@hidden>
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>>>>> "Brent" == Brent Fulgham <brent.fulgham@xpsystems.com> writes:

>>     Is anyone using anything other than C and its heirs for 
>> their low level language implemenation work?
>>     
>>     It seems all to easy to introduce bugs in one's 
>> implmentation when using something as unsafe as C.
>> 

Brent> That's a very common first-goal with languages.  I can think
Brent> of several off the top of my head: [...]

Scheme 48 (http://www.s48.org/) is written almost entirely in Scheme.
The byte-code VM is written in a systems-programming dialect of Scheme
called PreScheme which compiles to C.

-- 
Cheers =8-} Mike
Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla

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