Re: [Chicken-users] chicken and stalin

[Andrew D. Bagdanov]

Dan Muresan writes:
 > > This goes far beyond games on Windows.  This is about people
 > > completely wasting their time on projects that, if they have no
 > > academic context, are completely worthless.  I've gone bankrupt
 > > chasing nonsense.  I have delusions of grandeur that I *might* save
 > > some young buck from his/her utter cluelessness in the face of
 > > industrial reality.
 > 
 > Brandon, your penchant for getting involved in long, useless polemics is 
 > NOT a quality. Also, you may want to be more cautious when judging the 
 > difficulty level of various software platforms, especially when you 
 > haven't really tried using them.
 > 
 > I think it's pretty well established that Stalin (and Gambit?) are 
 > faster than Chicken, but Chicken has a much better ecosystem (community, 
 > libraries etc). If you see people interested in Stalin, I'm pretty sure 
 > they know the deal they're getting. You're not adding value by trying to 
 > convince them otherwise; and they certainly won't appreciate your 
 > suggestion that you know better what's good for them.
 > 
 > Let's stick to discussions that provide value to all participants. Keep 
 > in mind that when you feel like belaboring a random point to death, you 
 > can always reply in private.
 > 
 > P.S. All this talk of Stalin has made me curious; is there a page 
 > documenting Stalin's limitations / standard adherence? If it's just the 
 > lack of syntax-rules support, that can be worked around with the help of 
 > Alexpander.
 > 

The README file is fairly verbose on the deviations of the Stalin
implementation from R4RS.

Cheers,

-Andy

 > Zdravstvuite,
 > Dan
 > 
 > 
 > 
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