Re: Another approach to agent architecture [ was Re: agents .. ]

Nathaniel Borenstein (nsb@nsb.fv.com)
Fri, 7 Apr 1995 16:24:28 +0500


Excerpts from mail: 7-Apr-95 Re: Another approach to age..
nitin@borwankar.com (5282*)

> If the safe-tcl community can build translators to/from the safe versions
> of these languages from/to safe-tcl ( assuming this can be done ) then there
> may be less of a problem.

This strikes me as the $64M question. Language translators are a
difficult thing to get right. I have no idea, a priori, whether it is
easier to translate Python and Scheme into Tcl, or Python and Tcl into
Scheme, or Scheme and Tcl into Python. I don't see any path to a quick
answer, and that concerns me. -- Nathaniel
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