From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jul 15 12:21:35 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id MAA17508 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 15 Jul 1995 12:21:35 -0700 Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [204.188.121.18]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA17501 for ; Sat, 15 Jul 1995 12:21:32 -0700 Received: from localhost.v-site.net (localhost.v-site.net [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id MAA16080; Sat, 15 Jul 1995 12:21:08 -0700 Message-Id: <199507151921.MAA16080@rah.star-gate.com> X-Authentication-Warning: rah.star-gate.com: Host localhost.v-site.net didn't use HELO protocol X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6delta 4/7/95 To: Peter da Silva cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HotJava In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 15 Jul 1995 07:31:43 CDT." <199507151231.HAA13328@bonkers.taronga.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 15 Jul 1995 12:21:07 -0700 From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >>> Peter da Silva said: > In article <199507140808.BAA00422@rah.star-gate.com>, > Amancio Hasty Jr. wrote: > >If folks like to work on this sort of languages please take a look at > >guile-ii avaiable in the ports/lang directory in freebsd.cdrom.com. > > [shrug] > > Guile is a scheme derivitive. There are plenty of unencumbered schemes. > > The "convert this or that language into Guile" business is a red herring. > The way people tend to use interactive interpreters, you always end up > coding in the native language anyway. > > There's STk and four other scheme's in ports/lang already. What does Guile > give us that any other scheme wouldn't? > Speed ? If we look at it from a scheme point of view then Guile does not offer much more. I was thinking along the lines of using the facilities in Guile as you have well pointed out we have scheme interpreters for FreeBSD for quite sometime yet I don't hear a lot of people using them . Amancio