[Info-vax] Rust as a HS language, was: Re: Quiet?

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 4/5/22 19:22, Chris Townley wrote:
> On 06/04/2022 00:14, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 4/5/2022 1:25 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>> On 2022-04-04, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>>>> On 4/4/2022 1:56 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Why wasn't Python 3 just another language mode in the existing 
>>>>> compiler
>>>>> instead of being a whole different compiler ?
>>>>
>>>> (ignoring that I would not call Python a compiler)
>>>>
>>>
>>> In that case, would you have said (for example) UCSD Pascal wasn't
>>> a compiler ?
>>
>> I have never used USCD Pascal, but I assume that it has a compilation
>> step, so NO.
>>
>>> Python can output .pyc files but also has a way of running code
>>> interactively if desired.
>>
>> Modules get saved as .pyc files when first used.
>>
>> I would call that "caching of intermediate code for
>> interpretation" and not "compilation" but the difference
>> between "caching of intermediate code for interpretation"
>> and "JIT compilation" is pretty thin.
>>
>> But for no other reasons than common custom, then
>> I do not consider Python (CPython that is)
>> compiled.
>>
>> Arne
>>
> 
> UCSD 'compilers' famously compiled to a pseudo code that was then 
> interpreted. Didn't go down well then...

Sadly, too far ahead of its time.  And then there were the people
cheating UCSD Pascal developers out of the value of their IP.

Believe it or not, last I saw it was still actively being sold in
Europe by the last remaining UCSD Licensee.

I always wanted a Western Digital Pascal Microengine.  :-)

bill