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Date:Mon Mar 13 20:56:44 1993 
Subject:Re: McPOPLOG 
From:Ian Rogers 
Volume-ID:930314.02 

axs@cs.bham.ac.uk (Aaron Sloman) writes:
> From jlc%bmtech.uucp@uknet.ac.uk Tue Mar  9 15:14:10 1993
>
>     "AI Multilanguage System McPOPLOG: The Power of Communication
>      Between its Subsystems", I Bruha, The Computer Journal,
>      Vol 35, No 6, 1992


I've just read this paper.

    "McPOPLOG is written in C ... portable to any 32-bit machine,
    only the code generator must be rewritten"

har har :)

It seems to have a subset of Pop11 functionality with a mixture of
Pop11 & POP-2 syntax.

In a comparison between Sussex Poplog and McPOPLOG:

    "about 3 times faster in compilation and twice as fast in
    execution"

but

    "timings depend on the percentage of calls of standard and user
    defined procedures"

Hmm, I'd guess it'd be easy to get fast execution if all your code
called internal functions (presumably written in C).

I'd really like to see this go public-domain. It's a shame that the
syntax is different though (What was that? Standard pop? Pop9x? no -
must've imagined it).

Ian.