4 Jul
2008
4 Jul
'08
12:58 a.m.
On Jul 4, 2008, at 12:37 AM, Jochen Kunz <jkunz at unixag-kl.fh-kl.de>
wrote:
On Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:00:31 -0400
"Joshua Alexander Dersch" <derschjo at msu.edu> wrote:
I'll refrain from comment, other than saying that every language has
been a reinvention of Lisp, Fortran, Smalltalk or Simula :).
I like C# (and 'managed' code in general)
because it allows me to
focus on the problem rather than the tool.
Well. C# is just an other reinvention
of that wheel. M$ reinvented it
purely to chain customers to their products. There have been Java and
Smalltalk before. They could just use Java, but Java is "not invented
here"...
I would use Smalltalk. I don't know of any other language that can
express statements in such a natural way with such a high grades of
flexibility, orthogonality and abstraction.
But implementing an emulator in a language that is interpreted by a
virtual machine? I don't know...
I don't want to sideline my own thread any longer (anyone have any
questions or comments related to the PERQ or the emulator? ;)) but c#
(and Java) are not interpreted. They're just-in-time compiled in most
cases. There's no reason either of them couldn't be compiled to
native code (and I believe there are native Java compilers out there.)
Josh
But we get OT.
--
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Jochen
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