In article <e1aa09cd-3bcd-4e9b-8f4c-e307a1424...@a2g2000prd.googlegroups.com>, bolega <gnuist...@gmail.com> wrote: >I am trying to compare LISP/Scheme/Python for their expressiveness. > >For this, I propose a vanilla C interpreter. I have seen a book which >writes C interpreter in C. > >The criteria would be the small size and high readability of the code. > >Are there already answers anywhere ? > >How would a gury approach such a project ?
He would have his 10 year LISP sink in, meditate for 10 days and start from scratch with a typical LISP approach. He would have his 10 year Algol68 sink in, meditate for 10 days and start from scratch with a typical Algol68 approach. (Scheme is not different enough from LISP, to make this interesting. Hey Scheme *is* a dialect of LISP.) He would have his 10 year Python sink in, meditate for 10 days and start from scratch with a typical Python approach. Maybe he would code "one to throw away". The outcome would be extremely interesting, but ... > >Bolega Groetjes Albert -- -- Albert van der Horst, UTRECHT,THE NETHERLANDS Economic growth -- being exponential -- ultimately falters. alb...@spe&ar&c.xs4all.nl &=n http://home.hccnet.nl/a.w.m.van.der.horst -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list