From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: MJ Ray Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: GNU/MIT Scheme? Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 05:34:48 -1100 Organization: My own Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <5c3173faaf34615038fa0fc982d4a3e5@bouncing.localnet> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Generated by Pantomime 1.0.99) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1054226317 997 80.91.224.249 (29 May 2003 16:38:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 16:38:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Marius Vollmer Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 29 18:38:32 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19LQNy-0008WK-00 for ; Thu, 29 May 2003 18:36:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19LQNc-00059O-D7 for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 May 2003 12:35:52 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19LQN7-00053V-2w for guile-user@gnu.org; Thu, 29 May 2003 12:35:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19LQMY-0004e2-8H for guile-user@gnu.org; Thu, 29 May 2003 12:34:47 -0400 Original-Received: from pengo.systems.pipex.net ([62.241.160.193]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19LQLg-00041M-By for guile-user@gnu.org; Thu, 29 May 2003 12:33:52 -0400 Original-Received: from bouncing.localnet (81-86-163-141.dsl.pipex.com [81.86.163.141]) by pengo.systems.pipex.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32ACF4C00A64; Thu, 29 May 2003 17:33:49 +0100 (BST) Original-Received: by bouncing.localnet (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9EEA15BD83; Thu, 29 May 2003 17:34:48 +0100 (BST) Original-To: Greg Troxel In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: GNUMail.app (Version 1.1.0) Original-cc: guile-user@gnu.org X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:1999 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.user:1999 On 2003-05-29 14:52:37 +0100 Greg Troxel 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." _______________________________________________ Guile-user mailing list Guile-user@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-user