Why must implementing Python be hard unlike Scheme?

seberino at spawar.navy.mil seberino at spawar.navy.mil
Wed Feb 20 01:22:40 EST 2008


On Feb 19, 9:49 pm, Kay Schluehr <kay.schlu... at gmx.net> wrote:
> Building a
> Python VM in a high level language is certainly not harder than
> creating a Scheme interpreter.

Does VM = interpreter?
Are you saying implementing a toy Python interpreter is not any harder
than implementing a toy Scheme interpreter?

I don't understand why you think that.
The Python grammar is much more complicated.  Python ASTs are much
more complicated.  Parsing Python files with the whitespace is harder.
Please prove me wrong.  I hope you are right.

Chris



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