From: MJ Ray <markj@cloaked.freeserve.co.uk>
Subject: Re: GNU/MIT Scheme?
Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 22:07:46 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrnbdflhi.c1d.markj+0111@bouncing.localnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: xy7y90ovg0g.fsf@nada.kth.se
Mikael Djurfeldt <djurfeldt@nada.kth.se> wrote:
> This, of course, depends on the total sum of your needs. If you want
> to publish "pure" R5RS Scheme software and the architectures which
> GNU/MIT Scheme supports are enough for you, GNU/MIT Scheme might very
> well be a good choice.
I'm not sure that GNU/MIT Scheme has enough interfaces to other parts
of GNU, or other libraries to be quite as useful, but it's hard to tell.
> (But you might find some Guile facilities such as the module system [...]
No, I find the Guile module system and most other general things only
accessible through non-portable interfaces an obstruction. The same is
true of most other scheme implementations, though.
[...]
> As Greg said, GNU/MIT Scheme and Guile has different goals and
> different roles. GNU/MIT Scheme is an implementation of Scheme, while
> Guile is an extension and scripting language.
...but Guile is an implementation of Scheme, and GNU/MIT Scheme is a
scripting language (whatever that means today). The only difference
seems to be the FFI and libguile. Is MIT Scheme coming to GNU the
first step towards a merge?
--
MJR/slef My Opinion Only and possibly not of any group I know.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-30 22:07 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
2003-05-30 11:19 ` Mikael Djurfeldt
2003-05-30 22:07 ` MJ Ray [this message]
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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