Re: Ion rewriting

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 12:53 AM, Tuomo Valkonen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2008-11-10, Tuomo Valkonen <[email protected]> wrote:
>> And Haskell just sucks for the moderately object-oriented approach that is
>> "obvious" for certain things.
>
> OTOH, Haskell and Parsec [1] are simply wonderful for writing parsers.

Do you find that's the case because of pattern-matching function
definition syntax ?

I wrote a lambda-calculus to SECD machine [1] compiler (not parser)
and an SECD machine emulator [2] in (completely singly-threaded)
Erlang, and found it easy for this very reason.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SECD_machine
[2] ok, so I didn't get the RAP instruction to work because I didn't
think of a good workaround for the lack of a lisp "rplaca"-like
function before the semester ran out.  I had some good ideas for how
to do it after the semester ended, though.