"One Bullet is never enough" Paper

Dean Goodmanson ponderor at lycos.com
Sun May 19 22:33:58 EDT 2002


> > Nevertheless,
> > your paper is quite interesting in its own right, it's just in the
> > wrong newsgroup.
> 
> I had to resort to Ctrl-F in Netscape to find the connection.  The
> paper *does* mention Python, almost in passing, and Forth...
> 
> -Peter

After skimming the paper (and Ctrl-F,etc.), I was interested to see
what the original discussion on this paper was.

I didn't find an exact hit in comp.lang.forth, but did find this:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&selm=3CE57855.AE29FA7E%40tundraware.com

I found the python portion especially interesting in light of Jython &
.Net:

"I reserve the right to be wrong, but it seems to me that we ought to
be evolving to a world in which programmers of complex systems write
in meta-languages like Python - which embrace OO, procedural, DBMS and
Functional Programming notions - but whose runtimes would be best
delivered in something like Forth (or Erlang).
...
  This is is probably a pipe-dream because trying to efficiently map
the semantics of a late-bound dynamic language like Python onto a
sleek Forth runtime is likely too costly in terms of runtime size and
speed. " -
(Turning Faith Into Practice section, just before Heaven Or Hell? , 
http://www.tundraware.com/Technology/Bullet/ , Time Daneliuk )



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