Also, I see no problem in, for example, Guido trying to prove the point by making a PicoLisp clone in the runtime of his choice :) IIRC, we already have the Ersatz (Java) port of picolisp.
On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 4:23 PM George-Phillip Orais <orais.georgephil...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Guido, > > Thank you for sharing your insights here, I have fun reading them. > > But please respect Alex decision in using LLVM for pil21, its his choice and > its his programming language, so please stop discouraging him. > > > BR, > Geo > > > > > On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 10:12 PM John Duncan <duncan.j...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hey Alex, >> >> Just wanted to tell you how much I appreciate your work. I hope you find a >> blowhard like Guido amusing and not too irritating. I get the impression >> he’s hardly written a line of code in his life, and that was probably in >> Java. >> >> Take care! >> >> John >> >> On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 07:59 Alexander Burger <a...@software-lab.de> wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 12:51:33PM +0200, Guido Stepken wrote: >>> > Use Mike's DYNASM JIT Engine. Better, faster, smaller (tiny, in comparison >>> > to LLVM), more portable. He's from Munich. >>> >>> Useless. >>> >>> Sigh! How often have I told here that the main purpose of pil21 is >>> portability? >>> I need it to build PilBox on iOS, and to support RISC-V architectures. In >>> fact >>> *all* 64-bit architectures, as I got tired of porting pil64. >>> >>> And I need it NOW!! Not *perhaps* in ten years. >>> >>> Also, please shut up with WebAssembly. I need something running on POSIX for >>> server side applications. Something in the browser is as useful for me as >>> chewing gum for my cat. >>> >>> — Alex >>> >>> -- >>> UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe >> >> -- >> John Duncan -- keep raising the bar -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe
