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From: "Aaron W. Hsu" <arcfide@sacrideo.us>
Subject: Re: Dealing with higher order operations coupled with primitives
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On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 23:17:39 -0400, Gina Engli wrote:

> Wouldn't it be easier to just use Clojure for the higher-order stuff,
> and its map, reduce, etc. or amap, areduce, etc.?

It would be "easier" to code this up in a number of languages, but I 
am trying to build a core runtime for a compiler that will compile 
either to Java or to JVM, either one of which, it seems, I will need 
the core language primitives to be defined somehow, and right now 
the fastest version of the runtime that I have implemented is in 
Java; things like Scala and the like have not been as fast.

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Aaron W. Hsu | arcfide@sacrideo.us | http://www.sacrideo.us
Programming is just another word for the lost art of thinking.