On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 07:36:54PM -0500, Mathew Kurian wrote: > Thank you Professor Brown name for your reply as well. > > When I read your reply, does your answer to the first question identify > Racket as a language built on top of another base language (i.e. Assembly or > C) or is it directly connected to the processor language?
First, I'll answer for Scheme. There are a lot of Scheme implmentations. If you want one build directly on C, I suggest you look at Gambit. Gambit compiles Scheme to C (or optionally C++). The Gambit interpreter is written in Scheme and translated to C by the compiler. Next, Racket. I'm not entirely sure of Racket (formerly PLT Scheme), but I believe it translates the input form of programs into a byte-code, and either interprets or cmopiles the byte-code to machine language, depending on how much effort has been exerted implementing the low-level stuff on your particular machine. I believe that on 32-bit Intel machines, it gets compiled to machine code. Can someone confirm this? -- hendrik _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
