From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Neil Jerram" Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Avoid `SCM_VALIDATE_LIST ()' Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 00:45:25 +0200 Message-ID: <49dd78620809061545h1a1aa8e4t8e4c10772ab5b137@mail.gmail.com> References: <87hc90u9lb.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1220741141 21269 80.91.229.12 (6 Sep 2008 22:45:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 22:45:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: hanwen@xs4all.nl, guile-devel@gnu.org To: "Andy Wingo" Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 07 00:46:36 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Kc6Y4-00006I-Et for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:46:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42082 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kc6X4-00035B-8S for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:45:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kc6X1-00033y-LM for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:45:27 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kc6X1-00033H-7r for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:45:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35655 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kc6X0-000334-PF for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:45:26 -0400 Original-Received: from rv-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.198.251]:59972) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kc6X0-00034d-D7 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:45:26 -0400 Original-Received: by rv-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id k29so971643rvb.6 for ; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 15:45:25 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=iTE/vVKGuPI277p1R3Ei/wBWYF45KsWcKJ4msJj4Utc=; b=WOwE2Vh7HpBjzXCtbp96T5xTQKKdIIdGaeHn18noL+GYS4lnabM2baQjNF4dJae2sd 282TEuxw+D02MYXZ2utjxMxM8xb+BDyN6Lw39E+GnISltruvq2OT9MFBrffCWrt0J5Qb PIH+HIzJGZVlkDCaa5uyeWMV2YgY3mPEW9nGI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=EnLGASRQtCHPaZl89cHyJ3iKhgcqK0yIJHZ1MFlNPDpY8KZykqQjsm6UQ4bO+ieHnc QLL1sa6wsMGDJwoDccYu8AQ+VIlaxqAsA14mGIUa0y+ZrM+EiuktjrDOEifMdg1K2bSH bxTd+bwnKAnNpr7Fv9rq7mO+F8Bjy0yGMb7JQ= Original-Received: by 10.141.163.12 with SMTP id q12mr7728470rvo.265.1220741125603; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 15:45:25 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.141.177.4 with HTTP; Sat, 6 Sep 2008 15:45:25 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:7599 Archived-At: 2008/9/5 Andy Wingo : > I don't know why I'm answering this, but... > > On Thu 04 Sep 2008 17:10, Han-Wen Nienhuys writes: > >> Well, I remember having a flamewar with RMS about language agnosticism >> and running emacs on GUILE about 8 years ago, and I don't think we >> have progressed much since then. Extrapolating this pace, I think >> it's a waste of time. > > 8 years?? Anyway. I just mentioned things that guile-vm can do. If they > don't get done that means they're not important. I was going to write the same thing - then saw that Andy had already done so. People work on what interests them, in the time they have spare. I know we've lost in the global scripting language competition, but I still find this language implementation fun. >> How much sense does it make to translate Scheme or LISP to JavaScript >> and have (for example) V8 or tracemonkey handle it? > > I think for some people it will make sense, but such a beast would not > be Guile. Agree there too. Neil