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Article #7079Re: GNU Script isn't fixing something that's broken, so is doomed
From: Peter da Silva
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 1994 19:58
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 1994 19:58
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In article <NJ104.94Nov3141339@hilsa.amtp.cam.ac.uk>, Neil Jerram <nj104@amtp.cam.ac.uk> wrote: > In article <398tet$9lp@csnews.cs.Colorado.EDU> Tom Christiansen > <tchrist@mox.perl.com> writes: > A significant challenge will be for the > FSF to implement this great extension language and then provide a generic > API so that people building things don't HAVE to use it, so that they > could in fact, if they desired, used tcl or ksh or rexx or whatever. > Haven't I read this somewhere before? Yes. > Like RMS's and Tom Lord's original posts, perhaps? No. > Could it be that Tom Christiansen is finally getting the message? I don't know. He doesn't like Scheme much, which I think is a pity, but there *is* a difference between "provide a generic API" and "compile to a common IL". -- Peter da Silva `-_-' Network Management Technology Incorporated 'U` 1601 Industrial Blvd. Sugar Land, TX 77478 USA +1 713 274 5180 "Hast Du heute schon Deinen Wolf umarmt?"
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f891f,9bda08f2f068881f X-Google-Attributes: gidf891f,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,9bda08f2f068881f X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-11-03 11:58:29 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,gnu.misc.discuss Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!news.uh.edu!uuneo.neosoft.com!nmtigw!peter From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: GNU Script isn't fixing something that's broken, so is doomed Message-ID: <id.CWEE1.VXG@nmti.com> Sender: peter@nmti.com (peter da silva) Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI References: <394kll$kso@csnews.cs.Colorado.EDU> <398lhg$b8f@mudraker.mtholyoke.edu> <398tet$9lp@csnews.cs.Colorado.EDU> <NJ104.94Nov3141339@hilsa.amtp.cam.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 3 Nov 1994 19:58:29 GMT Lines: 27