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davis@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu  (John E. Davis) writes:
>The reason I chose a stack based language is easy:  The parsing stage is
>simple.  I did not want most of the executable devoted to the language.

I've been planning on using a stack based language for my editor, too.
This lets the basic editor (a C editing core, the interpreter, and a
few important functions written in the stack language) be small and
efficient.

Eventually, the plan is to also provide a C compiler that compiles
from C to the editor language, so that pepole who want to write their
editor programs in C can do so.  But this will be a separate program,
so that people who simply want a small and efficient editor don't have
to carry around the baggage of a C compiler or interpreter.

--Tim Smith