On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Neil Van Dyke <n...@neilvandyke.org> wrote: > Jay McCarthy wrote at 09/21/2010 03:02 PM: >> >> We already have hosted Javascript, Algol 60, Datalog, R5RS, and R6RS. In >> the past, we've had version of Java in the core. We have Python and SML out >> there from people at Utah. >> > > Do these all translate to Racket syntax, and then the normal Racket > interpreter/compiler takes over?
Yes. > Or does anyone generate VM bytecode > directly? Just Matthew. :) More seriously, the bytecode is harder to generate, not more expressive (I think) and generating it loses you optimizations. Jay has a student working on a bytecode generator, but I believe that's still alpha-stage. -- sam th sa...@ccs.neu.edu _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
