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From: MJ Ray <markj@cloaked.freeserve.co.uk>
Cc: Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.de>
Subject: Re: GNU/MIT Scheme?
Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 05:34:48 -1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5c3173faaf34615038fa0fc982d4a3e5@bouncing.localnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <rmiptm1507u.fsf@fnord.ir.bbn.com>

On 2003-05-29 14:52:37 +0100 Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com> wrote:

> MIT Scheme (now GNU/MIT it seems) is quite a different beast from
> guile.  [...] it doesn't seem like a good idea to use it for an
> extension language to a C program.  So I see it as complementary to
> guile, not competitive. [...]

I see it as a competitor, for what I use guile for: deploying software 
written in Scheme to GNU platforms (must publish more of them). Do you 
think I should be using GNU/MIT instead?

Then again, given that most of what I want to do seems to involve 
interfacing with C things, should I stick with Guile?  Our OS is 
written mostly in C, so aren't all things just extensions to C?
This move has confused me. I thought Guile was GNU's Scheme and GNU's 
scripting language of choice. I was wondering if Guile knew where they 
fit in now that GNU has another Scheme implementation. So far, it 
seems not, unless they are to be just embedded extensions.

-- 
MJR/slef   My Opinion Only and possibly not of any group I know.
       Thought: "Changeset algebra is really difficult."


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-05-29 16:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-28 23:09 GNU/MIT Scheme? MJ Ray
2003-05-29 12:15 ` Marius Vollmer
2003-05-29 12:40   ` MJ Ray
2003-05-29 13:52     ` Greg Troxel
2003-05-29 14:57       ` Marius Vollmer
2003-05-29 16:34       ` MJ Ray [this message]
2003-05-30 11:19         ` Mikael Djurfeldt
2003-05-30 22:07           ` MJ Ray
2003-05-30 22:37             ` Per Bothner
2003-05-30 23:44               ` Marius Vollmer
2003-06-01 17:24 ` Marius Vollmer

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