Re: Lua table implementation

[Ralph Hempel <rhempel@...>]

Robert Raschke wrote:
> Philippe Lhoste wrote:
> > In other words, do somebody know some alternative implementation, or has 
> > done some detailed analysis of this algorithm or have some other 
> > material I could use?
>
> I have found the book about the implementation of Icon to be extremely
> well written, concise and clear:
>
> The Implementation of the Icon Programming Language
> Ralph E. Griswold and Madge T. Griswold
> Princeton University Press, 1986
> ISBN 0-691-08431-9, out of print 
>
> It is available online at http://www.cs.arizona.edu/icon/ibsale.htm
>
> In it you will find a lot of information on how to write an
> implementation of associative arrays and the like.

And then you could find other things that Ralph Griswold has done
like:

<http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=808393&coll=portal&dl=ACM>

Yes, it's SNOBOL4! The crazy macro processing language we learned
in CS10x 25 years ago at the University of Waterloo. I blame
this course on my lifelong fascination with interesting little
languages like Forth and Lua...

I just love how the great programmers and language designers
seem to keep coming up with interesting ideas.

Cheers,

Ralph Hempel