[racket] Hosting other languages on Racket

From: Jay McCarthy (jay.mccarthy at gmail.com)
Date: Tue Sep 21 15:02:09 EDT 2010

We already have hosted Javascript, Algol 60, Datalog, R5RS, and R6RS.
In the past, we've had version of Java in the core. We have Python and
SML out there from people at Utah.

Jay

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Grant Rettke <grettke at acm.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there a precedent for hosting other languages on the Racket VM in
> the same way that JRuby and Clojure live in the JVM or F# and
> IronPython live on the CLR?
>
> Is that interesting to users? Or implementers?
>
> How technically difficult is it? (days/months/years)
>
> Are there research opportunities there?
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Grant
>
> --
> http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/
> ACM, AMA, COG, IEEE
> _________________________________________________
>  For list-related administrative tasks:
>  http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
>



-- 
Jay McCarthy <jay at cs.byu.edu>
Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University
http://teammccarthy.org/jay

"The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93


Posted on the users mailing list.