Date: Sat, 15 Jul 1995 12:21:07 -0700 From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HotJava Message-ID: <199507151921.MAA16080@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 15 Jul 1995 07:31:43 CDT." <199507151231.HAA13328@bonkers.taronga.com>
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>>> Peter da Silva said: > In article <199507140808.BAA00422@rah.star-gate.com>, > Amancio Hasty Jr. <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> 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
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