[pypy-dev] RE: 300,000 lines of C

[Boyd Roberts]

Hickey,Thom wrote:

> Does anyone else have experience with TeX?  Knuth wrote it in Pascal ...

Yes I remember installing it when it first came out.  It consisted of a
Pascal bootsrap and two programs called 'tangle' and 'weave'.  IIRC
they were huge chunks of Pascal, very ugly and unweildy.

I have been thinking of an idea where there is a C implementation
of a virtual machine code to machine code interpreter.  The interpreter
is then supplied in the virtual machine code and it is then
compiled/interpreted to machine code.  From there it would run
native.

I have been thinking about Inferno's Limbo:

    http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/papers/descent.html