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Re: Ousterhout article on scripting applies to scheme

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Subject: Re: Ousterhout article on scripting applies to scheme
From: papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Paul Prescod)
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 16:37:47 GMT
Organization: University of Waterloo Computer Science Club
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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