Re: [Chicken-users] Choosing a programming language for a web project

[Jean-Philippe Théberge]

<quote who="John Cowan">
> Jean-Philippe Théberge scripsit:
>
>> There is no existing C lib that I need to link to, but It seem that the
>> possibility of writing in C for mission critical part of the project
>> (and
>> linking to them) can be done more easily with chicken than the other
>> languages - but I havent tried it yet.
>
> You essentially never need to do that, because Chicken compiles into C
> anyhow, so just write in Scheme and leave it at that.  Speed is a great
> advantage of Chicken over the usual "scripting languages".
>

I guess (but maybe I'm wrong) that in some case, code written directly in
C will be better than the C generated by chicken.

How is the readeability of the chicken generated C?

-- 
Jean-Philippe Théberge
Programmeur-Architecte
http://www.BuddyPilots.com


> --
> The Imperials are decadent, 300 pound   John Cowan <address@hidden>
> free-range chickens (except they have   http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
> teeth, arms instead of wings, and
> dinosaurlike tails).                        --Elyse Grasso
>