Python frontend?

[Robert Dewar]

Dave Korn wrote:
>>-----Original Message----- 
>   Woah!  I'm *very* seriously impressed, that seems a huge achievement with
> such a dynamic language where so much of the overhead is about runtime
> lookup and type-resolution.  Is anything public/published of your work on
> that? 

Well a lot of the techniques are taken from SPITBOL, right down to
low level data structures etc. Much of this is documented in the 1977
Software Practice and Experience article (Dewar and McCann).

P.S. It is entertaining that my message drew two replies, one from you
seriously impressed, the other a bit of a yawn, saying that is what you
expect moving from an interpretor to generated code :-) :-) :-)

P.P.S. The class project was never really finished enough to pass on,
but if anyone is interested in these materials, I can dig them up!