From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Sun Dec 10 03:57:41 2000 Subject: Re: The future of Octave From: Keisuke Nishida To: Lynn Winebarger Cc: "John W. Eaton" , help-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu Date: 10 Dec 2000 05:58:08 -0500 Hello, Lynn Winebarger writes: > Wouldn't it be better to go to a virtual machine + general optimizing > phase compiler core + multiple frontends model? These other languages are > nice and all, but how well do they support numerical computation? And how > much cruft would be generated (if you choose Scheme, I would think you're > most of the core code (what's written in C++) would still be in C++ or C, > but with a load of Guile hooks in them. Is that going to improve the > developer situation or worsen it? I am a Guile developer who is working on a Guile virtual machine. So far Guile has been concerned in translating various languages into Scheme, but I personally think having multiple frontends or translating into a lower level intermediate language would be better. I am now designing a new core language and going to spend the next few years working on this. Just FYI. Thanks, Keisuke Nishida ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html -------------------------------------------------------------