From: Dale Mellor <dale@dmellor.dabsol.co.uk>
Subject: Re: First look at Guile Std Library available
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 10:29:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <16373.14841.524453.369087@l.a> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040102052128.GA16849@Richard-Todds-Computer.local>
>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Todd <richardt@vzavenue.net> writes:
Richard> Modules currently in the project, about 1/2 lifted from other
Richard> sources, about 1/2 I wrote over the last couple weeks:
Richard> * container queue:: Queues, Stacks, and Deques * logging logger::
Richard> Logging mechanism * logging port-log:: A log handler that outputs
Richard> to ports * logging rotating-log:: A log handler for rotating text
Richard> file logs * math minima:: Finding minimum values of functions *
Richard> math primes:: Functions dealing with prime numbers * os process::
Richard> Manipulating and creating process chains * search basic:: Classic
Richard> searching algorithms * string completion:: Facilities for things
Richard> like TAB-completion * string soundex:: Soundex Algorithm * string
Richard> transform:: Transformations of strings * string wrap:: String
Richard> wrapping and filling functions * term ansi-color:: Colors text with
Richard> ANSI sequences
This is just a knee-jerk reaction I got on reading the e-mail, but without
looking into your work in any detail, and is probably more useful as a talking
point amongst the Guile community than a direct comment.
The collection of modules seems to be something of a hodge-podge of utility
libraries (just because PERL and Python do it this way doesn't mean we have to),
and overlaps with other stuff we already have (notably ice-9 and slib). I think
that we should move towards developing some 'standard' libraries as separate,
community-managed projects.
- a low-level wrapper around libc (simple procedure definitions which reflect
those in libc, much of which is already in ice-9, and a lot of the rest is
hardwired in Guile anyway - it just needs documenting in one place)
- a library which provides UNIX functionality presented in a lispish programming
paradigm (this should be Guile's workhorse UNIX interface, and is
essentially a wrapper around the above library). Maybe add in here such
things as string completion, ANSI colours, soundex...
- a library of lispish containers, iterators and algorithms (akin to the C++
STL; much of which is slib)
- a library of mathematical algorithms (akin to the good ol' NAG routines; these
will probably be better written in C and exposed to Guile through a thin
wrapper)
My two cents for the day,
Dale
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-02 9:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-02 5:21 First look at Guile Std Library available Richard Todd
2004-01-02 9:29 ` Dale Mellor [this message]
2004-01-03 1:03 ` Richard Todd
2004-01-03 2:25 ` Andreas Rottmann
2004-01-03 15:00 ` Dale Mellor
2004-01-03 14:36 ` Dale Mellor
2004-01-03 22:42 ` Richard Todd
2004-01-03 16:38 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2004-01-03 16:48 ` Nic Ferrier
2004-01-03 22:18 ` Richard Todd
2004-01-04 1:49 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2004-01-04 3:50 ` Richard Todd
2004-01-04 12:59 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
[not found] ` <16376.5782.10995.206284@l.a>
2004-01-04 14:17 ` Dale Mellor
2004-01-04 21:51 ` Richard Todd
2004-01-05 0:30 ` Andreas Rottmann
2004-01-05 5:00 ` Richard Todd
2004-01-05 16:03 ` Robert Uhl
2004-01-05 20:01 ` Richard Todd
2004-01-06 1:36 ` Robert Uhl
2004-01-06 18:41 ` number->string radix patch (Was Re: First look at Guile Std Library available) Richard Todd
2004-01-07 4:04 ` Robert Uhl
2004-01-07 5:26 ` Richard Todd
2004-01-07 20:54 ` Robert Uhl
2004-01-08 7:11 ` I get unknown immediate error in guile 1.7 Roland Orre
2004-01-08 17:14 ` Roland Orre
2004-01-10 20:17 ` Kevin Ryde
2004-05-10 20:34 ` number->string radix patch Marius Vollmer
2004-05-11 3:16 ` Richard Todd
2004-05-11 3:51 ` Keith Wright
2004-05-27 21:56 ` Kevin Ryde
2004-06-10 16:35 ` Marius Vollmer
2004-06-10 16:34 ` Marius Vollmer
2004-05-11 5:23 ` Richard Todd
2004-05-27 21:54 ` Kevin Ryde
2004-06-10 16:47 ` Marius Vollmer
2004-06-11 1:40 ` Kevin Ryde
2004-01-05 10:08 ` First look at Guile Std Library available Dale Mellor
2004-01-05 3:39 ` Paul Jarc
2004-01-05 4:28 ` Richard Todd
2004-01-05 5:19 ` Paul Jarc
2004-01-06 22:25 ` Ludovic Courtès
2004-01-06 23:53 ` Richard Todd
2004-01-16 20:17 ` Andy Wingo
2004-01-05 14:00 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2004-01-05 20:32 ` Richard Todd
2004-01-05 20:59 ` Dale P. Smith
2004-01-06 16:54 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2004-01-06 20:32 ` Richard Todd
2004-01-03 18:19 ` Clinton Ebadi
2004-01-03 20:12 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2004-01-04 2:02 ` Richard Todd
2004-01-06 20:42 ` Richard Todd
2004-01-06 21:20 ` Paul Jarc
2004-01-03 22:52 ` Richard Todd
2004-01-04 1:53 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2004-01-04 20:34 ` Arno Peters
2004-01-05 20:12 ` Richard Todd
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