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If you give someone Fortran, he has Fortran. If you give someone Lisp, he has any language he pleases.
by ijoshua 19y ago
If you give someone Fortran, he has Fortran. If you give someone Lisp, he has any language he pleases.
- parbo 19y agoBut as coffeeaddicted said above: if you give someone C/C++, he can implement a lisp interpreter easily and then have any language he pleases..
- brent 19y agoAs I replied to ca above, this would be breaking the single rule in question. You are limited to a single language, not a single compiler/interpreter to start with.
- ijoshua 19y agoGiven Lisp, I can implement a Lisp interpreter easily: (loop (print (eval (read)))
- parbo 19y agoYes, but can you write a standards-compliant C++ compiler?
- davidw 19y agoEasily, because in bizarro-one-language universe, I also have an infinite supply of monkeys. Hah!
- euccastro 19y agoPut one monkey to work on C++ and assign the rest on Hamlet. Oh, and make the C++ one use a typewriter too.
- Nicolay77 19y agoI think that compilers should be specially easy to write in Lisp over any other language. However in the time that most people were writing compilers no common or popular computer had enough memory to run Lisp reasonably. Even 8MB were a luxury. Now we have 2GB of RAM as the norm.
- tlrobinson 19y agoExtending that argument, if you give someone any Turing-complete language, he has any other Turing-complete language...