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From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe@bevo.che.wisc.edu>
Cc: guile-user <guile-user@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: language translator help
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 11:36:57 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <15565.30377.262356.191311@segfault.bogus.domain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d6wj13vw.fsf@becket.becket.net>

On 28-Apr-2002, Thomas Bushnell, BSG <tb@becket.net> wrote:

| The answer to your question is: Scheme is a convenient and pleasing
| language.  Why implement things in a suckier language when you can do
| it in Scheme?!

I don't want to start a language war, but while there are certainly
some objective arguments that could be made about the capabilities of
various computer languages, I think that whether Scheme is convenient
and pleasing is mostly a matter of what problems you are trying to
solve with the language, and of course, personal preference.

FWIW, my mind has apparently been corrupted by procedural languages
which have nice (to me at least, and I suspect I'm not the only one)
looping constructs, to the point that the equivalent forms for looping
in Scheme seem pretty "sucky" by comparison.  :-)

jwe

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  reply	other threads:[~2002-04-29 16:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 125+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-26 17:55 language translator help John W. Eaton
2002-04-26 21:14 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2002-04-27  9:48 ` Neil Jerram
2002-04-28  0:47   ` John W. Eaton
2002-04-28  1:21     ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2002-04-28  1:32       ` John W. Eaton
2002-04-28  2:10         ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2002-04-28 14:44           ` John W. Eaton
2002-04-28 18:41             ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2002-04-28 22:18               ` John W. Eaton
2002-04-29  5:16                 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2002-04-29 16:36                   ` John W. Eaton [this message]
2002-04-29 20:28                     ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-04-30 17:57                     ` MJ Ray
2002-05-01  6:31                       ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2002-04-30 22:49                     ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2002-04-28 18:21       ` Neil Jerram
2002-04-28 18:42         ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2002-05-01 22:19           ` Neil Jerram
2002-05-15 11:35         ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-05-15 20:49           ` Marius Vollmer
2002-05-15 23:13             ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-05-16  0:26               ` Bill Gribble
2002-05-16  1:20                 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-05-16  5:02                 ` Per Bothner
2002-05-16 21:57               ` Marius Vollmer
2002-05-16 22:36                 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-05-22 12:37                   ` Marius Vollmer
2002-05-22 19:26                     ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-05-22 20:50                       ` Marius Vollmer
2002-05-22 22:23                         ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-05-23  0:23                           ` Marius Vollmer
2002-05-23  4:59                             ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-05-23 11:37                               ` Bill Gribble
2002-05-23 23:41                                 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-05-23 11:46                           ` MJ Ray
2002-05-23 17:33                             ` Marius Vollmer
     [not found]                               ` <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>
2002-05-23 22:20                                 ` MJ Ray
2002-05-27 20:26                                   ` Marius Vollmer
2002-05-29  8:55                                     ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-05-29 18:56                                       ` Marius Vollmer
2002-05-29 19:17                                         ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-05-29 19:46                                           ` Marius Vollmer
2002-05-29 19:59                                             ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-05-30 12:16                                               ` Marius Vollmer
2002-05-30 22:39                                                 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-05-30  2:28                                           ` Christopher Cramer
2002-05-30  7:38                                             ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-06-04 22:58                                           ` MJ Ray
2002-06-04 23:56                                             ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
     [not found]                                               ` <ttn@giblet.glug.org>
2002-06-05  8:22                                                 ` MJ Ray
2002-06-05  9:42                                                   ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-06-05 22:59                                                     ` MJ Ray
2002-06-05 23:32                                                       ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-06-07 23:14                                                       ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-06-05 23:54                                                 ` MJ Ray
2002-06-06  0:23                                                   ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-06-06  2:44                                                     ` Bill Gribble
2002-06-06  7:23                                                       ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-06-06  8:13                                                       ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-06-06  9:24                                                 ` MJ Ray
2002-06-06 11:18                                                   ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-06-07 23:25                                                     ` MJ Ray
2002-06-08  0:42                                                       ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-06-08  4:49                                                       ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-06-08 17:44                                                       ` rm
2002-06-10 16:45                                                         ` Marius Vollmer
2002-06-08 22:45                                                 ` MJ Ray
2002-06-08 23:18                                                   ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-06-10 12:29                                                     ` MJ Ray
2002-06-10 12:31                                                     ` MJ Ray
2002-06-10 19:18                                                       ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-06-10 23:30                                                 ` MJ Ray
2002-06-10 23:51                                                   ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-06-11 17:50                                                     ` Robert Uhl <ruhl@4dv.net>
2002-06-11 20:09                                                       ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-06-11 18:48                                                   ` news
2002-06-12 17:44                                                     ` Forking stables. was " MJ Ray
2002-06-12 20:31                                                       ` Rob Browning
2002-06-14 19:32                                                       ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-06-14 20:08                                                         ` Clinton Ebadi
2002-06-14 20:21                                                           ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-06-14 21:03                                                             ` Clinton Ebadi
2002-06-14 21:39                                                               ` Robert Uhl <ruhl@4dv.net>
2002-06-14 21:45                                                               ` news
2002-06-17 22:37                                                                 ` Neil Jerram
2002-06-17 23:06                                                                   ` Clinton Ebadi
2002-06-17 23:14                                                                     ` Clinton Ebadi
2002-06-17 23:35                                                                   ` Bill Gribble
2002-06-18 18:40                                                                   ` news
2002-10-04 17:53                                                                     ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-06-15  6:29                                                               ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-09-08 18:48                                                 ` guile 1.4.1.86 (snap) available MJ Ray
2002-09-08 20:09                                                   ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-05-18 13:47           ` language translator help Neil Jerram
2002-05-19  2:32             ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-05-19  3:03               ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-04-28  6:53     ` Per Bothner
2002-04-28 18:21     ` Neil Jerram
2002-04-28  0:53   ` loop translations (was: Re: language translator help) John W. Eaton
2002-04-28  1:33     ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-04-28  5:06       ` David Pirotte
2002-04-28  9:52         ` rm
2002-04-28 13:49     ` Marius Vollmer
2002-04-28 14:29       ` John W. Eaton
2002-04-28 18:15         ` Marius Vollmer
2002-04-28 18:48           ` Marius Vollmer
2002-04-29 20:07             ` Clinton Ebadi
2002-04-29 20:50               ` Eric E Moore
2002-04-30 15:07                 ` Eric E Moore
2002-04-28 18:21     ` Neil Jerram
2002-04-28  0:54   ` translators and scoping rules " John W. Eaton
2002-04-28 13:50     ` Marius Vollmer
2002-04-28 14:03       ` John W. Eaton
2002-04-28 14:35         ` Marius Vollmer
2002-04-29  2:26           ` John W. Eaton
2002-05-07 18:50             ` Marius Vollmer
2002-04-28 15:26         ` Per Bothner
2002-04-29  2:08           ` John W. Eaton
2002-04-29  4:37             ` Per Bothner
2002-04-29 16:27               ` John W. Eaton
2002-04-28 18:21     ` Neil Jerram
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-09-08  6:23 guile 1.4.1.86 (snap) available Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-09-08 17:21 ` MJ Ray
2002-09-08 17:45   ` Thien-Thi Nguyen

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