Re: [Texmacs-dev] Boehm-gc-texmacs gc behavior

[Joris van der Hoeven]

On Mon, 24 May 2004, David MENTRE wrote:
> Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden> writes:
> > One strategy would therefore be to write marking routines for
> > all TeXmacs data types. That it cumbersome, but would allow for
> > essentially better conservative garbage collection.
>
> <deliberately provocative>
> Another strategy would be to rewrite TeXmacs from scratch in a correct
> language (Scheme (bigloo), OCaml or common lisp). Those languages are
> much more suitable to write applications than low level languages
> without gc like C and C++.
> </deliberately provocative>

<deliberately provocative>
You are right: I probably should write a Mathemagix compiler first.
Scheme, Ocaml and common lisp are very low level too: they do not
even support real overloading.
</deliberately provocative>