Re: Continuations

["Perry E. Metzger" <address@hidden>]

Alan Bawden <Alan@lcs.mit.edu> writes:
> Don't Perl or Java programmers ever write interpreters?

I recently wrote a (partial) Scheme interpreter in Java to learn Java
better, but part of what I learned what how limiting Java is. Not
having function pointers sucks big time, as does not being able to
subclass a class like String, as do a hundred other petty
annoyances. Certainly Java is not optimized for people trying to write
an interpreter for another language.


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Perry E. Metzger		perry@piermont.com