Re: Use scheme || nothing

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From: Stephen J Bevan
Date: Sat, 05 Nov 1994 12:30

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In article <39dqin$oj6@btree.brooktree.com> mdimeo@brooktree.com (Matt DiMeo) writes:
   Scheme and perl, for example, encourage very different styles of
   programming.  Perl programs tend not to be as function-call
   intensive as lispish programs.  So by switching to scheme, you gain
   a little bit on a little part of the program, and lose out on
   things that perl is really good at. 

Could you expand on what those things are?  Various aspects of string
processing come to my mind, however most (all?) are really library
functions which can be hooked into another language (after all you can
take the code right out of the Perl implementation :-).

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From: bevan@cs.man.ac.uk (Stephen J Bevan)
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Subject: Re: Use scheme || nothing
Date: 05 Nov 1994 12:30:22 GMT
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