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Re: What is Guile?
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Han-Wen Nienhuys |
Subject: |
Re: What is Guile? |
Date: |
Thu, 4 Sep 2003 01:12:44 +0200 |
address@hidden writes:
> > It is interesting to note that Java is much more the "multi-lingual
> > framework", considering Kawa (Scheme in Java),
>
> This is still pretty good:
>
> http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~shivers/javaScheme.html
>
>
> JVM is a popular target for economic and political reasons, not
> technical ones. In a technical sense, it's a lousy target.
>
> As engineers, working to align the economics and politics with the
> technology is our job.
Indeed. The libraries as a motivation for selecting a language is also
an economical thing: it takes less time to develop on a platform with
good libraries. Worse is better (tm).
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Han-Wen Nienhuys | address@hidden | http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen
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