Re: Use scheme || nothing

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From: Tom Christiansen
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 1994 21:23

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:-> In comp.lang.misc, liberte@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Daniel LaLiberte) writes:
:The technical need is to leverage off of each others efforts at
:extension languages.   The question is do we know enough about different
:kinds of little languages to say that Scheme (or any other language) is
:powerful enough as the base language for all of them?  I would say 
:that Scheme is a good choice for this.

It seems that you're saying "any language *THAT TRANSLATES INTO SCHEME* is
fine".  That's silly.  Let me put it this way.  C is already a portable
assembler.  That's what it was for.  We know how to optimize C.  We have
innumerable APIs for C.  What's the big problem?  

That's why GEL *must* provide a C API, not merely a Scheme one.  

--tom
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Tom Christiansen      Perl Consultant, Gamer, Hiker      tchrist@mox.perl.com
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From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com>
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Subject: Re: Use scheme || nothing
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