Re: GNU Script isn't fixing something that's broken, so is doomed

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From: Stephen J Bevan
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 1994 08:28

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In article <39odfp$nvq@love.loyola.edu> bkuhn@justice.loyola.edu (Bradley M. Kuhn) writes:
   ... Perhaps below the Scheme-like level of GNUel, there should be a
   low level interface that other extension languages could
   compile/translate to.  The goal would be to eliminate speed problems
   of translations to scheme,	....

Hold on, what "speed problems of translations to scheme"?  I know Tom
has said translating to Scheme would slow things down, but there is a
world of difference between saying it and proving it.

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From: bevan@cs.man.ac.uk (Stephen J Bevan)
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Subject: Re: GNU Script isn't fixing something that's broken, so is doomed
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