On 11/27/06, Abdulaziz Ghuloum <aghuloum_at_cs.indiana.edu> wrote:
> It's very simple, really. The "larger category of programs" is Scheme
> implementations since we know this area dominates all uses of Scheme.
> Can a Scheme implementation be written as a script? Maybe, but then
> it would need another implementation to run it! To break the need for
> having infinite scripts going all the way down, every Scheme
> implementation, at its root, must be a non-script. Seriously :-)
>
It could be a library (which is loaded by a script in order to run
actual programs). Or it could be implemented in a non-Scheme language
(perish the thought!).
--Jeff
Received on Mon Nov 27 2006 - 15:15:54 UTC