From: schwartz@galapagos.cse.psu.edu.NO-SPAM (Scott Schwartz)
Subject: Re: Unix tools, small and large
Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme,comp.lang.scheme.scsh,comp.lang.lisp,
comp.lang.functional
To: Olin Shivers <shivers@lambda.ai.mit.edu>
Date: 30 Apr 1997 19:44:14 -0400
Organization: PSU CSE
Roughly speaking, I want to replace every program in /bin, /usr/bin,
/usr/ucb, and so on, with an a.out generated by a Scheme (or ML)
compiler (or interpreter, if the original was a shell script), and I
want it to be within 10% of the size and speed and working set of the
original (shared libraries disallowed, for easier measurement).
Scott, I think we agree that (1) you can't do this right now with the
technology being shipped, (2) it could be done, and (3) it would be a
great thing to do.
I developed scsh to help enable this. I do not claim scsh takes you
all the way home.
-Olin
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