From: "Dale P. Smith" <dsmith@altustech.com>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What is Guile?
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2003 09:20:31 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F5DD39F.9020806@altustech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030909003319.GC4490@strike.parodycheck.net>
Jeff Read wrote:
> Converting language X to Scheme, and then interpreting the Scheme is
> an interesting academic idea but if technology doesn't work for
> people then it doesn't work. Guile isn't the fastest Scheme
> interpreter in the world, and adding another layer of parsing and
> conversion will simply make things slower. If given the choice
> between a slow, subtly incompatible Perl substitute and Perl, most
> developers will simply embed Perl. Same goes for Python, or whatever
> other language you can think of. There's also the taste aversion to
> Scheme to overcome. GIMP appears to be migrating from Scheme to Perl
> as its embedded language of choice. Alternatively they will target
> JVM or MSIL bytecode.
Yes indeed. I think that's why most of the ficus so far has been on
improving the Guile interpreter and moving to a compiler or other
speedups, like Gnu Lightning.
> That's how free software authors standardized on the creeping horror
> that is Autoconf (which I'm writing a replacement for (in Guile!)).
> :)
Hooray!
-Dale
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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
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 [this message]
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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