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From: mikpe@IDA.LiU.SE (Mikael Pettersson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.functional
Subject: Q: compilers written in lazy languages
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Date: 8 Nov 90 17:58:22 GMT
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Organization: CIS Dept, Univ of Linkoping, Sweden
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I'd like to ask those of you who have implemented compilers using
_lazy_ functional languages a couple of questions:

    Did you make significant use of the laziness of the implementation
    language, i.e. were there parts the the compilers that
    would have been considerably more difficult to implement
    or less efficient had the impl. language been applicative?
    If so, what were those parts and for what kinds of object
    languages (the input lang. to the compilers) did this occur?

email replies ==> I'll do a followup in, say, 10 days from now.


/Mike
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Mikael Pettersson, Dept of Comp & Info Sci, University of Linkoping, Sweden
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