Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to")

[Jan Hudec]

On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 11:53:17 +0200, William Dode wrote:
> Tom Lord <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> >        William Dode:
> >
> >        Could you explain briefly why the others langages doesn't fit ?
> >        specialy lua wich is an embeddable langage. Maybe the answer
> >        will be in 3) ?
> >
> > Lua is awefully close and is an inspriation for Furth. (http://www.lua.org/)
> >
> > Shriram Krishnamurthi in a talk called "The Swine Before Perl" laid
> > out a list of 5 "gems" -- great ideas in language design, found in
> > Scheme, commendable to designers of new little languages.
> 
> My question was more to know why Arch need a so specific embedded
> langage. But i should wait for your third roadmap !

For one thing arch needs SOME embeded language. The reason is, if
nothing else, the number of wrapper and scripts around tla that exist.
The kind of stuff they do is mostly glueing primitive commands, which is
too cumbersome to do in C. So the idea is, that tla should have the
primitive commands in C, cleaned up, simple and flexible. And a simple
interpreter to build a user friendly interface on top of them.

Now to the choice of language. I think Tom said it clearly enough, that
furth is a simple prototype for pika VM (though, do we need another
scheme VM, now that we are going to have parrot?).

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