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Re: Elk/Guile (Re: Bad news from the module/environment front)
Lynn Winebarger wrote:
>
> On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Chris Bitmead wrote:
> Let's see, when I did a "scheme compiler" for a class
> last semester, we only dealt with the core of the
> language, and no real optimization, and no error checking.
> A comparable project for C would be (conceptually)
> simpler, IMHO.
When I think of all the syntax of C, what with operator precedance,
structures, pointers, type promotion and all it sounds way way harder to
me.
> Of course, we wrote our scheme compilers in scheme, while
> I'm sure C compilers would be written in C. That would
> add to the difficulty of writing the C compiler just from
> dealing with memory management, but that's just C.
>
> Lynn