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Article #7042Re: Use scheme || nothing
From: Tom Christiansen
Date: Tue, 08 Nov 1994 19:35
Date: Tue, 08 Nov 1994 19:35
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:-> In comp.lang.misc, abraham@iesd.auc.dk (Per Abrahamsen) writes: : :>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com> writes: : :Tom> Translating ksh93, perl5, or python into scheme will only slow them :Tom> down. Why ever would you want to do this? : :Maybe because you want to write an extension to a GNU tool but does :not like to write it in scheme? : :If someone feels more comfortable with python than lisp, would it be :so bad to allow him to use python to customize his editor, while stil :taking advantage of the packages written in emacs lisp and other :supported languages? That would be fine. But we haven't got that, because there's no API, just an SPI. See other post. --tom -- Tom Christiansen Perl Consultant, Gamer, Hiker tchrist@mox.perl.com "SPARC" is "CRAPS" backwards --Rob Pike
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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: 1994-11-09 08:35:05 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!nntp.gmd.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!boulder!csnews!mox!tchrist From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com> Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Use scheme || nothing Date: 8 Nov 1994 19:35:57 GMT Organization: Perl Consulting and Training Lines: 25 Message-ID: <39ojut$r8n@csnews.cs.Colorado.EDU> References: <394kll$kso@csnews.cs.Colorado.EDU> <LIBERTE.94Nov2143656@void.ncsa.uiuc.edu> <398vo8$ari@csnews.cs.Colorado.EDU> <ABRAHAM.94Nov3000250@micro.iesd.auc.dk> Reply-To: tchrist@mox.perl.com (Tom Christiansen) NNTP-Posting-Host: perl.com Originator: tchrist@mox