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Re: Writing HG LISP in Python, kind of

From Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net>
Newsgroups comp.lang.lisp
Subject Re: Writing HG LISP in Python, kind of
Date 2025-09-25 05:58 +0100
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 Ar an ceathrú lá is fiche de mí Méan Fómhair, scríobh Lawrence D’Oliveiro: 

 > On Wed, 24 Sep 2025 14:03:40 +0100, Aidan Kehoe wrote:
 > 
 > > With time and maturity I have come to the realisation that there is
 > > *always* an underlying machine and an underlying language
 > > implementation ...
 > 
 > With popular languages, there are typically multiple implementations, 
 > often built on very different implementation concepts.

And very few of them have no stack, or no heap, or are implemented on
drum-memory computers, or use an underlying integer representation that is
other than twos’ complement.

 > This is the case with Python, just for example.

-- 
‘As I sat looking up at the Guinness ad, I could never figure out /
How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stout’
(C. Moore)

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Re: Writing HG LISP in Python, kind of Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-14 23:43 +0000
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  Re: Writing HG LISP in Python, kind of Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net> - 2025-09-23 20:28 +0100
    Re: Writing HG LISP in Python, kind of Jeff Barnett <jbb@notatt.com> - 2025-09-23 17:22 -0600
    Re: Writing HG LISP in Python, kind of Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-09-24 09:11 +0000
      Re: Writing HG LISP in Python, kind of Madhu <enometh@meer.net> - 2025-09-24 16:55 +0530
        Re: Writing HG LISP in Python, kind of tpeplt@gmail.com - 2025-09-24 14:59 -0400
        Re: Writing HG LISP in Python, kind of Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-09-24 20:34 +0000
          Re: Writing HG LISP in Python, kind of Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net> - 2025-09-25 06:07 +0100
            Re: Writing HG LISP in Python, kind of Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-09-25 05:49 +0000
          Re: Writing HG LISP in Python, kind of ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2025-09-26 20:12 +0000
      Re: Writing HG LISP in Python, kind of Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net> - 2025-09-24 14:03 +0100
        Re: Writing HG LISP in Python, kind of Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-09-24 20:33 +0000
          Re: Writing HG LISP in Python, kind of Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net> - 2025-09-25 05:58 +0100
            Re: Writing HG LISP in Python, kind of Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-09-25 05:50 +0000

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