Scheme as a virtual machine?
Ertugrul Söylemez
es at ertes.de
Fri Oct 15 23:41:28 EDT 2010
namekuseijin <namekuseijin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 14 out, 00:26, Ertugrul Söylemez <e... at ertes.de> wrote:
> > BTW, you mentioned symbols ('$', '.' and '>>='), which are not
> > syntactic sugar at all. They are just normal functions, for which
> > it makes sense to be infix. The fact that you sold them as
> > syntactic sugar or "perlisms" proves that you have no idea about the
> > language, so stop crying. Also Python-style significant whitespace
> > is strictly optional. It's nice though. After all most Haskell
> > programmers prefer it.
>
> it still makes haskell code scattered with perlisms, be it syntax or
> function name... in practice, Haskell code is ridden with such
> perlisms and significant whitespace, and infix function application
> and more special cases. All of these contribute to a harder to parse
> language [...]
So what? The quality of a language isn't measured by the difficulty to
parse it. Haskell has certainly more syntactic special cases than
Scheme, but I don't care, because they are /useful/.
> [...] and to less compilers for it.
That's an arbitrary and wrong statement. The reason why there aren't
many Haskell compilers is that Haskell needs a good run-time system and
a lot of algorithms, which you wouldn't need in languages like Scheme
(including typed Scheme), which have a comparably simple type system.
Also you have to deal with laziness, and ideally you would want to write
a smart optimizer. This is easier for other languages.
But what's the matter? GHC is BSD-licensed. Derive your project from
it, if you are, for some reason, not happy with it.
> > > And one as complex and scary beast as gcc... that's the cost of a
> > > very irregular syntax...
> >
> > What also proves that you have no idea is the fact that there is no
> > Haskell compiler called 'gcc'. That's the GNU C compiler.
>
> ORLY?
>
> do you understand what a comparison is?
Sure, sure. I'd probably say that, too, in your situation. ;)
> > Glasgow Haskell Compiler, GHC, and it's by far not the only
> > one. It's just the one most people use, and there is such a
> > compiler for all languages.
>
> yeah, there's also some Yale Haskell compiler in some graveyard, last
> time I heard...
http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Implementations
Greets,
Ertugrul
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