Re: from lightweight languages to heavyweights

I am presently rewriting a scheme prototype in C++-so if you define
"successful" as "fulfils the requirements of a specification" rather than
"made money", then I think I count. Or are you looking for commercially
successful apps?

On 11/15/05, Avi Bryant <[email protected]> wrote:
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> 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? ;-)
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> Sure, but he said "successful"... (/me ducks).
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> 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).
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> Avi
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