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Article #7038Re: GNU Script isn't fixing something that's broken, so is doomed
From: Matt Kennel
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 1994 03:12
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 1994 03:12
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Tom Christiansen (tchrist@mox.perl.com) wrote: : The nice thing about a real API, like UNIX system calls, various : libraries, or even the simple stdin/stdout/argv one, is that you can make : different language bindings. I can make forth bindings if I want so long : as I call the functions properly. But I certainly don't have to go make : forth compile into scheme to do so!! Huh? Most Unix things seem to be awfully C-oriented. (can Lisp parse /usr/include/sys/sockio.h?) Other languages generally have to make 'wrappers' around the native Unix system library calls to translate things into a form natural for those languages? You have to choose some system at some point. GNU is arguing for something like Scheme. : --tom -- -Matt Kennel mbk@inls1.ucsd.edu -Institute for Nonlinear Science, University of California, San Diego -*** AD: Archive for nonlinear dynamics papers & programs: FTP to -*** lyapunov.ucsd.edu, username "anonymous".
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f891f,9bda08f2f068881f X-Google-Attributes: gidf891f,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,9bda08f2f068881f X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-11-13 22:04:07 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!nntp.gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!pipex!uunet!timbuk.cray.com!equalizer!network.ucsd.edu!mbk From: mbk@inls1.ucsd.edu (Matt Kennel) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: GNU Script isn't fixing something that's broken, so is doomed Followup-To: comp.lang.misc,gnu.misc.discuss Date: 14 Nov 1994 03:12:30 GMT Organization: Institute For Nonlinear Science, UCSD Lines: 22 Message-ID: <3a6kiu$69m@network.ucsd.edu> References: <39ojsl$r8k@csnews.cs.Colorado.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: lyapunov.ucsd.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]