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From: richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Right-to-left (was: Re: entry at other than main)
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Date: 28 Aug 89 17:24:55 GMT
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>There are some quite impressive APL compilers, actually.  As with many
>such languages, the interpreter has to be around in the general case,

Or else the compiler has to be around.  I don't know if there are any
such APLs, but there are lisp systems without an interpreter at all -
when you type in an expression, they compile it and execute the code
immediately.

-- Richard
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