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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