language interpreters/ interpreted languages weaknesses?
Stephan Houben
stephan at pcrm.win.tue.nl
Thu Sep 2 09:20:00 EDT 1999
Markus Fleck <fleck at informatik.uni-bonn.de> writes:
> Stephan Houben <stephan at pcrm.win.tue.nl> wrote:
> > Moreover, if you read a more-or-less theoretical book on language
> > implementation (as I once had, very interesting BTW), you will find out
> > that even those "toy languages" are compiled to something like G-code or
> > TIM-code.
>
> TIM-code? What hardware does that one run on? :-)
On a Three Instruction Machine, obviously.
Very good for implementing high-level lazy functional languages,
which are in themselves very suitable for implementation of
Artificial Intelligence algorithms.
That should explain a lot. ;-)
Greetings,
Stephan
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