ANN: Dogelog Runtime, Prolog to the Moon (2021)

[Chris Angelico]

On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 9:50 PM Peter J. Holzer <hjp-python at hjp.at> wrote:
> > Let Python be Python, don't try to build your own language on top of
> > it.
>
> Well, he's writing a Prolog interpreter, so building his own language on
> top of Python is sort of the point. I think a better way to put it is
> "Don't try to write Python as if it was C".

Fair point. Or combining them both: Writing a language interpreter in
Python as if you were writing it in C, and then complaining that it is
slow, is only going to elicit "well uhh yes?" responses.

Languages like NetRexx (and, I think, Jython, although I can't find
any definitive and current answers) are slightly different from their
"parent" languages, because they make good use of their implementation
languages' features. This Prolog interpreter might not even need to be
different in functionality, but its implementation would be different,
and it could take advantage of the underlying garbage collection.

ChrisA