······@ils.nwu.edu (Kenneth D. Forbus) writes:
> Just as there are multiple C++ environments out there, it would be
> really great if someone buckled down and did a "Scheme as glue" for
> Win32. We've got the start of one, a port of Scheme48 that one of
> our undergrads did this summer which includes sockets support (take
> a look at the CS A11 web page on www.cs.nwu.edu to get a copy, along
> with some other goodies, such as a first draft web spider).
I don't know squat about Win32, but we're using RScheme here at the
University of Texas as the backbone of a fairly serious real-time
robot control framework under Linux. RScheme doesn't (yet) have a Tk
interface, but it does have a simple and robust object system,
preemptive threads (even on systems that don't support preemptive
multitasking) with thread-blocking-not-process-blocking IO and a full
UNIX system interface including sockets and lots of other stuff.
Bill Gribble
Damnit! Why don't all you Scheme people agree on one standard set
of extensions so you can cooperate? There are too many good but
incompatible Scheme systems around.
Don (······@cs.waikato.ac.nz)
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······@cs.waikato.ac.nz "Don Smith" writes:
> Damnit! Why don't all you Scheme people agree on one standard set
> of extensions so you can cooperate? There are too many good but
> incompatible Scheme systems around.
Because there's no single "right" way of doing things (that everyone
can agree on)? Hmm. I doubt that everyone (or, being pessimistic,
anyone) will agree with that!
This is what can sometimes make designing things so "interesting",
in the sense of the Chinese curse, "May you live in interesting
times". A programming version might go, "May you program in an
interesting language". Most of us do...
"Truth is never pure, and rarely simple." -- Oscar Wilde
"I would gladly die for a man who was looking for the
truth, but would just as gladly kill a man who thought
he had actually found it." -- Voltaire
Hmm.
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