On Jul 13, 11:18 pm, geremy condra <debat...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 11:01 PM, bolega <gnuist...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Jun 20, 9:31 pm, Richard Fateman <fate...@cs.berkeley.edu> wrote: > >> Define Macro wrote: > >> > On Jun 13, 7:07 pm, bolega <gnuist...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> I am trying to compare LISP/Scheme/Python for their expressiveness. > > >> >> For this, I propose a vanilla C interpreter. I have seen a book which > >> >> writes C interpreter in C. > > >> >> The criteria would be the small size and high readability of the code. > > >> >> Are there already answers anywhere ? > > >> Sure. Lots of texts on compilers provide exercises which, in one way or > >> another suggest how to write an interpreter and perhaps a compiler too > >> for some language. Anyone taking a course on compilers is likely to > >> have followed such exercises in order to pass the course. Some > >> instructors are enlightened enough to allow students to pick the > >> implementation language. > > >> Ask any such instructor. > > > Beware, he does not tell the readers the financial details. This is > > what he wrote to me by email. > > > <quote> > > I would be willing to meet with you here in Berkeley to educate you on > > these matters at a consulting rate of $850 per hour, with a minimum > > of 8 hours. > > > RJF > > </quote> > > He's Berkeley's former CS chair and was implementing lisp before > common lisp was a twinkle in anybody's eye. His time is valuable. > > Geremy Condra
This makes some sense. He replied on the newsgroup in a lengthy post that there are sufficient resources out there giving hint that no one need help me out. Then I was called "lazy" in one email and tersely given JUST the last name of an author who has many books each many 100s pages, when I asked for a relevant book, as if i am a scholar in the field, although he did spend lots of words on irrelevant and unbeneficial things which diminished my enthusiasm. Now, I find out from you that he has/had a business concern or interest in a company that is writing/wrote lisp interpreter in C. Correct me if I am making an error. I dont want to think deprecatingly of any good soul but this is what i experienced. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
