Re: Scriptometer: measuring the ease of SOP (Script Oriented Programming) of programming languages

[Daniel Weinreb <address@hidden>]

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>1. is the JVM (or .NET) a nice bytecode to build scripting languages
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>1. I don't know much about this. All I can say is that JVM is
>dynamically typed and reflexive and this helps. A pb may be
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At LL1, the Perl folks explained that they were writing a whole new VM 
because
the JVM was inadequate to do what they needed.  I suggested that 
explaining the
details of this would make a great paper.  It would sure be nice if 
somebody, within
the Perl team or not, would understand what's going on and write a paper 
about it.
Perhaps someone could find a student for whom this would be a suitable 
project.

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