Re: Intermediate forms (again?): worthwhile?

"Tony" <nospam@myisp.net> said:


> I am surprised (kinda) to see how many people consider C a suitable
> compile-to language when it really is only good for C-derivatives. C++
> is one of those, so cfront was adequate, for awhile. For languages
> that depart from C-likeness, it is not suitable at all.


The language Pepper I designed as a Pop11-derivative can be thought of
as "Lisp with an open stack" and I had a reasonable Pepper-to-C
implementation. "Not suitable at all" seems a bit of a stretch.


It helps that Pepper has no non-local gotos or an exception mechanism.
The design for full lexical scoping was not implemented but the
primitive it would have used -- partial application, ie a kind of
currying -- was; not implementing was mere laziness on my part.


So likely it all depends on what value one places on different
implementation characteristics.


Chris
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Chris "allusive" Dollin

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