2008/9/2 Björn Helgason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/ > > I bet this could be done in J
I would have said that the other way around. That's basically an operating system, and operating systems can run J, but to my knowledge no one has ever even used J to bootstrap an operating system. And a useful operating system would also need a compiler, and we currently have no J compilers that anyone can use. Currently, if I were writing a J compiler, I would probably start by implementing J in Haskell. Haskell seems to have the right kinds of data structures for J, which hopefully means that if a J compiler needed something important that the people already working on the compiler could incorporate and benefit from whatever those important things were. But before I could write a J compiler in Haskell, I would need to be able to write a parser and read/eval/print loop in Haskell, and that's currently beyond my abilities. -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
