From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Han-Wen Nienhuys Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: What is Guile? Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 01:12:44 +0200 Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <16214.30060.577455.274070@localhost.localdomain> References: <3EF2F7DF008213D5@pop3.es.tisadm.net> <200309021647.JAA27864@morrowfield.regexps.com> <16214.21128.700682.727192@localhost.localdomain> <200309032252.PAA22143@morrowfield.regexps.com> Reply-To: hanwen@cs.uu.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1062688318 30951 80.91.224.253 (4 Sep 2003 15:11:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 15:11:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 04 17:11:56 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19uvm7-0004D3-00 for ; Thu, 04 Sep 2003 17:11:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 19uvld-0008TE-Dn for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Sep 2003 11:11:25 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 19ugp2-0003Wu-2Q for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Sep 2003 19:13:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 19ugo8-00035Z-8W for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Sep 2003 19:13:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [194.109.127.141] (helo=smtpzilla5.xs4all.nl) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 19ugo2-00033B-0G for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Sep 2003 19:12:54 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain.xs4all.nl (byrd.xs4all.nl [213.84.26.127]) by smtpzilla5.xs4all.nl (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h83NCg0k071185; Thu, 4 Sep 2003 01:12:43 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Tom Lord In-Reply-To: <200309032252.PAA22143@morrowfield.regexps.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.14 under Emacs 21.2.1 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:2749 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:2749 lord@emf.net writes: > > It is interesting to note that Java is much more the "multi-lingual > > framework", considering Kawa (Scheme in Java), > > This is still pretty good: > > http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~shivers/javaScheme.html > > > JVM is a popular target for economic and political reasons, not > technical ones. In a technical sense, it's a lousy target. > > As engineers, working to align the economics and politics with the > technology is our job. Indeed. The libraries as a motivation for selecting a language is also an economical thing: it takes less time to develop on a platform with good libraries. Worse is better (tm). -- Han-Wen Nienhuys | hanwen@cs.uu.nl | http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel