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From: mike@arizona.edu (Mike Coffin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.arch
Subject: Re: Programmed code generation: Native vs. Pcode
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Date: 17 Jul 88 19:10:56 GMT
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From article <23955@bu-cs.BU.EDU>, by bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein):
> Name three Lisps that people on this list are likely to have heard of
> which generate a "p-code" and not some form of machine language from
> their compiler. I can't think of one (unless you're referring to T or
> Scheme which are more or less lisp, a lot closer than Prolog or
> Smalltalk anyhow.)
No need to make an exception for T;  it generates native machine
code.  Also no need to call Scheme "more or less lisp"; it *is* a
lisp.  The invention of Common Lisp did not suddenly "unlispify" all
previous lisps.
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