Newsgroups: comp.lang.dylan,comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.java
Path: cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!das-news2.harvard.edu!oitnews.harvard.edu!newsfeed.rice.edu!bcm.tmc.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!uknet!newsfeed.ed.ac.uk!edcogsci!jeff
From: jeff@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Subject: Re: GC, Java, etc.
Message-ID: <DGnAw5.Co1@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Organization: Centre for Cognitive Science, Edinburgh, UK
References: <LUDEMANN.95Oct6140930@expernet26.expernet.com> <DGApp8.J41@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> <DGDGEB.6no@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> <45ltru$osk@camelot.ccs.neu.edu> <DGGpDx.IGE@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 13:01:37 GMT
Lines: 20
Xref: glinda.oz.cs.cmu.edu comp.lang.dylan:5461 comp.lang.lisp:19576 comp.lang.java:1975

clgonsal@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Carl Laurence Gonsalves) writes:

>In article <45ltru$osk@camelot.ccs.neu.edu>,
>Robert Futrelle <futrelle@ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>>By default, you should assume that Lisp is compiled.

>Unless you mean Scheme, I never mentioned Lisp. Every Scheme (and Lisp)
>that I've ever used were interpreted though. I know Lisp and Scheme
>compilers are available, but I've never actually seen one.

Humm.  I think I've used only one Common Lisp that didn't have
a compiler to native code (sometimes via C), and the one exception
was compiled to byte codes.  (I've used something like 14-15
Common Lisps.)

There are lots of Scheme interpreters around, because they're fairly
easy to write.  But there are also a fair number of Scheme's that have
compilers.

-- jeff
