[Noisebridge-discuss] I am working through "The Implementation of Functional Programming Languages"

[dpc]

dpc <weasel at meer.net> writes:

> Crutcher Dunnavant <crutcher at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Really? Is there a straight-forward way to compile Scheme down to run
>> on System F and/or the G Machine? Both systems are based on lazy graph
>> reduction, and assume immutability of data.
>
> i'm thinking more of managing environments/closure-ish things. there are
> a bunch of issues in functional languages that are different than when
> compiling algol-ish things.

plus, i also tend to think of the implementation of the 'abstract
machine' as part of the language implementation.

\p

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