Phoenix.pm: Interesting paper comparing programming languages

Bryan Lane Bryan.Lane at VITALPS.COM
Fri Jun 9 11:06:32 CDT 2000


Thanks!  I think I understand a little better where they are coming from.

Bryan
-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Walters [mailto:root at nebuchadnezzar.slowass.net]
Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2000 7:02 AM
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Subject: RE: Phoenix.pm: Interesting paper comparing programming
languages



Bryan,

It's a pretty fuzzy defination... haven't read the study yet... egcs gcc
compiles Java bytecode or Java source to executeable machine code now, but
Perl can be compiled into an exe which is just the Perl interpriter linked
to the byte code. egcs gcc, if I understand correctly, completely foregoes
the byte code in generating machine code... on the other hand, all
attempts to compile very dynamic languages like bash and Scheme fail... by
defination, every line must be expanded and reparsed every pass in bash,
and everything is a mutable list in Scheme which can change over time, and
usually does... Java in contrast is extremely static, and Perl is
reasonably static =)

I hope this notes finds everyone in good wealth. 

cheers!
-scott

On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Bryan Lane wrote:

> Very informative.  It seemed to be an in depth study.  I thought Java
should
> be considered a scripting language.  Perhaps I just don't know enough
about
> Java.
> 
> Bryan
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: doug.miles at bpxinternet.com [mailto:doug.miles at bpxinternet.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2000 1:04 PM
> To: Phoenix.pm
> Subject: Phoenix.pm: Interesting paper comparing programming languages
> 
> 
> PDF - http://wwwipd.ira.uka.de/~prechelt/Biblio/jccpprtTR.pdf
> Postscript - http://wwwipd.ira.uka.de/~prechelt/Biblio/jccpprtTR.ps.gz
> 



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