http://simonwillison.net/2008-06-08T09:36:47+00:00Simon Willison2008-06-08T09:36:47+00:002008-06-08T09:36:47+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/Jun/8/joe/#atom-tag

<blockquote cite="http://bitworking.org/news/321/The-Professionalization-of-Scripting-Languages"><p>There was a time when you could whip out a parser in lex and yacc, stitch together a naive VM and throw it over the wall and you'd have a new scripting language. Those days are coming to a close and in a few years (if not months) you won't be able get traction with anything unless it does direct threading, is register based, has generational GC, does peephole optimizations, does trace-folding, does type-inferenced inline caching, etc.</p></blockquote> <p class="cite">&mdash; <a href="http://bitworking.org/news/321/The-Professionalization-of-Scripting-Languages">Joe Gregorio</a></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/dynamic-languages">dynamic-languages</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/joe-gregorio">joe-gregorio</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/scriptinglanguages">scriptinglanguages</a></p>