In article <rcn2rprri4.fsf@redwood.skiles.gatech.edu>,
Richard Coleman <coleman@math.gatech.edu> wrote:
>Hopefully when Guile arrives on the scene, many of these things
>will be eventually available for it (primarily due to the higher
>profile of the FSF and GNU project).
I hope so too. A standard FFI would go a long way to integrating these
facilities without integrating actual Scheme implementations.
>Also I think the scheme community has been tackling the wrong
>problem. They want to replace C/C++/Java, when they should be
>trying to replace Perl/Tcl/Python.
I'm not sure if the same people who are comfortable with Perl/TCL will be
comfortable with Scheme. They are almost diametric opposites. Perl makes me
sick to my stomach and we know how Stallman feels about Tcl!
Paul Prescod
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