[pypy-dev] Scheme front end - Google Summer of Code

[Armin Rigo]

Hi Lenard,

On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 12:21:24PM -0700, Lenard Lindstrom wrote:
> Where I am going with this, I guess, is just how much of the PyPy Python 
> interpreter can be reused in writing the Scheme interpreter. By the 
> looks of it most of the machinery is already in place. And the flip side 
> of the the question is how easily would it be to move those 
> modifications back into Python? Of course the Scheme requirements may be 
> incompatible with Python.

We can think about this, yes.  It's a topic that we vaguely thought
about a few time: RPython should make it easy to bridge or merge
different languages with each other.  We never really explored the
question more so far, but it sure is interesting.


A bientot,

Armin