| I was thinking of writing yet another implementation of arc on a different platform - this time .net. My motivations for this are several: So far Java has been the main target for alternate implementations, I like .net and C#, I might be interested in experimenting with F#, and I'm interested in DirectX based game development. So my question is, what have you learned from the process of re-implementing arc? Are there any tips that you have on where to start to keep the complexity down and the progress encouraging? Useful tricks or ideas you've discovered along the way? How do you handle mapping between arc and the standard library/object model and why? What features of arc have you found to be difficult to implement, and did you decide to keep them and deal with it (how?) or skip them and move on? I'm mostly interested in the lower level of implementing arc at this point, rather than higher level design decisions concerning changes you wanted to make to the language, etc. but if they were motivated by your platform, or resulted in an easier implementation, I'm interested about them too. In fact, I'm probably interested in whatever it is you're willing to tell me, so you might as well ramble as long as you like. So, basically consider this a thread to share/brag as much as you like about your arc implementation, with a slight eye towards helping someone else get started implementing arc on a non-lisp platform. Thanks! |
