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From: cc1@cs.ucla.edu (Michael Gersten)
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Subject: Re: UNIX Facilities for Interpreters
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Date: Thu, 18-Jun-87 23:15:09 EDT
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From: cc1@cs.ucla.edu (Michael Gersten)

vread() is a nice idea, but fairly (very) limited. In particular, it requires
that the p-code being interpreted be stored on the disk in semi-compiled
form, and used as pure.

May I remind you that INTERACTIVE interpreters (which is the whole point
of interpreters) do not do this; most BASIC's tokenize the text as they
read it in, so it is not pure; any decent interactive system will have
dificulty utilizing this because they do not p-compile first.

			Michael Gersten

Volume-Number: Volume 11, Number 72