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From: nemesis
Subject: C interpreter
Date: 24 Aug 2009 13:16:01
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch_interpreter
http://www.softintegration.com/

yep, now it's truly portable... :P

eager to script in C? :))

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From: clipka
Subject: Re: C interpreter
Date: 24 Aug 2009 18:53:57
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nemesis schrieb:
> eager to script in C? :))

I must say that - um, no, actually not :-P

(Wait - hey, it's an embedded scripting language... I have an idea - 
let's use C as the POV-Ray 4.0 SDL... >_<)

(*shouts "YEHOVAH!"*)


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From: nemesis
Subject: Re: C interpreter
Date: 25 Aug 2009 07:34:28
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clipka escreveu:
> nemesis schrieb:
>> eager to script in C? :))
> 
> (Wait - hey, it's an embedded scripting language... I have an idea - 
> let's use C as the POV-Ray 4.0 SDL... >_<)

all bow before almighty C! :P

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From: Darren New
Subject: Re: C interpreter
Date: 25 Aug 2009 11:21:51
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nemesis wrote:
> yep, now it's truly portable... :P

While not portable, sophisticated commercial C interpreters have been around 
since 640K was a lot of memory. Just so's ya know.

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From: nemesis
Subject: Re: C interpreter
Date: 25 Aug 2009 11:35:03
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Darren New escreveu:
> nemesis wrote:
>> yep, now it's truly portable... :P
> 
> While not portable, sophisticated commercial C interpreters have been 
> around since 640K was a lot of memory. Just so's ya know.

oh!  Didn't know that.  Such a crazy idea, after all... what's the point 
when it's clearly not well suited for quick scripting, nor to performant 
code, specially in the face of C compilers for virtually all 
architectures under the sun?

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From: Darren New
Subject: Re: C interpreter
Date: 25 Aug 2009 11:45:26
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nemesis wrote:
> oh!  Didn't know that.  Such a crazy idea, after all... what's the point 

The point was that when your link takes 45 minutes and a full recompile 
takes 4 hours, you build your lower-level libraries once, link them into the 
interpreter, and then develop the next layer of functionality in the 
interpreter until you're ready to compile *that* layer.

I.e., it was really more useful as a REPL sort of thing than anything in 
production. Plus, IIRC, it did things for you like looking for buffer 
clobbering and such, if you told it to.  And allowed breakpoints and all 
that stuff. But mainly I used it to avoid the overhead of compile and link 
during development.

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