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Date:Mon Jan 11 08:46:17 1993 
Subject:Re: lvars and standards (was: Re: List and Vector Syntax) 
From:Chris Dollin 
Volume-ID:930111.01 

In article ... ray@philmtl.philips.ca (Ray Dunn) writes:

   Having been hacking in 'C' for the last ..cough.. years I can't understand
   why there wasn't a 'C' implementation of POP done a long time ago.

   I hope the work on Pepper is being done in a portable fashion.

The present (bootstrap) implementation is done by via a byte-coded 
interpreter written in ANSI C, and appears to run on an Arc under 
RISC OS and HP9000/300s, /400s, and 7|8-00's with only minor tweaks 
to the configuration file. Steve and I are occasionally working on 
a Mac port, and if someone was really convincing reason I'd look at
doing it on a PC.

Native-code compilers are another matter; I intend to do an Arc one,
but the other platforms, well, SOP.

[Performance of the interpreter isn't too hot, but there's plenty of
room for improvement yet.]
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