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On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 9:19 AM, Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> wrote:
> On 03Mar2014 09:17, Neal Becker <ndbecker2@gmail.com> wrote:
>>  Charles R Harris <charlesr.harris@gmail.com> Wrote in message:
>> >
>>
>> Imo the lesson here is never write in low level c. Use modern
>>  languages with well designed exception handling.
>
> What, and rely on someone else's low level C?

Someone needs to port Python to LISP.

And then write a LISP interpreter in JavaScript.

And an ECMAScript engine in Pike.

And a Pike interpreter in Java.

And a Java run-time written in ActionScript.

It's turtles all the way down...

ChrisA