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From: Tom Lord <lord@emf.net>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What is Guile?
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 15:52:24 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200309032252.PAA22143@morrowfield.regexps.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16214.21128.700682.727192@localhost.localdomain> (message from Han-Wen Nienhuys on Wed, 3 Sep 2003 22:43:52 +0200)



    > From: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@cs.uu.nl>

    > 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.

Some (unspecified) thing in the space of lisp dialects is probably a
better UIL than JVM bytecodes.

-t


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  reply	other threads:[~2003-09-03 22:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <3EF2F7DF008213D5@pop3.es.tisadm.net>
2003-09-02 16:47 ` What is Guile? Tom Lord
2003-09-03 20:43   ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2003-09-03 22:52     ` Tom Lord [this message]
2003-09-03 23:12       ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2003-09-04  9:43   ` tomas
2003-10-07 17:11     ` Marius Vollmer
     [not found]   ` <3EF2E935008FB586@pop2.es.tisadm.net>
2003-09-07 22:22     ` Marius Vollmer
2003-09-02 18:08 ` What is Guile?y Thamer Al-Harbash
2003-09-03 16:34   ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2003-09-02 21:03 ` What is Guile? Jonathan Bartlett
2003-09-02 21:59 ` Kevin Ryde
     [not found]   ` <3EF2F7DF008E4D8D@pop3.es.tisadm.net>
2003-09-07 12:38     ` Jeff Read
2003-09-08 17:14     ` Paul Jarc
2003-09-08 18:32       ` Thamer Al-Harbash
2003-09-08 21:39         ` Jonathan Bartlett
2003-09-09  0:33           ` Jeff Read
2003-09-09  2:43             ` Jonathan Bartlett
2003-09-09  3:25             ` Lynn Winebarger
2003-09-09 13:20             ` Dale P. Smith
2003-09-09 18:46             ` Andreas Rottmann
2003-09-10 11:55               ` Thamer Al-Harbash
2003-09-07 22:00 ` Marius Vollmer

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