Re: from lightweight languages to heavyweights

On Nov 15, 2005, at 1:57 PM, Steve Dekorte wrote:

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> On 15-Nov-05, at PM 01:18, Matthias Felleisen wrote:
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>> My question is: do any of you know of other examples of rewriting  
>> successful applications from a lightweight language into a  
>> heavyweight language? I would be interested to know a few.  
>> Descriptive answers are preferred over opinions.
>>
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> Hasn't almost all programming language research for the last 20  
> years been about rewriting Smalltalk and LISP code in other  
> languages? ;-)

Sure, but he said "successful"... (/me ducks).

In that vein, though, I don't think it's much of a stretch to see  
Eclipse as a rewrite of VAJ from Smalltalk to Java.  Assuming you  
count Smalltalk as lightweight (and if CL counts, it certainly does).

Avi