In article <34869D4A.500E@Reading.ac.uk>, Anthony Worrall <Anthony.Worrall@Reading.ac.uk> writes:
> Hi poppers
>
> This may be a stupid idea but is anyone looking into porting pop11
> onto the Java VM?
It's not a stupid idea. It is a good idea.
I'm planning to switch to Java for nearly everything that I do which
involves symbolic computation. This is a switch away from Common Lisp
(pop11 is not available on the platforms I use, AFAIK).
It would be nice to have some of pop11's syntactic sugar for constructing
lists, vectors, patterns etc.
What would be even better, politically, would be a pop11 to Java
translator, (which preserved comments in the source code) but I suspect
that this would be a lot harder to do.
Jonathan
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