Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Aidan Kehoe Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Writing HG LISP in Python, kind of Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2025 05:58:53 +0100 Lines: 22 Message-ID: <87ecrvcelu.fsf@parhasard.net> References: <87ms6lc6jw.fsf@parhasard.net> <10b0cks$3i6j6$1@dont-email.me> <87ikh8c89f.fsf@parhasard.net> <10b1ki9$3tbca$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net CS8LiO1OPoX8T9Pk4r0nTAbQYgOaacwRTp/nXDeXFf9DsH66X9 Cancel-Lock: sha1:MtUM6TGQPjMW5JuIc49cfanOoZI= sha1:u8LTeqB5RXsVvbSHUwaPtRE5o0o= sha256:sjitPT0Oz+rwtRXbfsNyofgVcntl7iXYoXtrbpyU8Kc= User-Agent: Gnus/5.101 (Gnus v5.10.10) XEmacs/21.5-b35 (Linux-aarch64) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.lisp:60721 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)