Re: Implementing Automake in Scheme

[Norman Gray]

Greetings,

> On Thu, 5 Aug 2004, Luis Araujo wrote:
>
> > I email to ask you for further information about a task in the 
> > section "GNU Help Wanted"
> > in savannah, named "Implement automake in Scheme" , there is a brief 
> > description

I didn't know there was such a thing as the `GNU Help Wanted' list, but 
I've long thought such a project would be an excellent idea.  It's a 
pretty natural language for such a task, and quite a few of the 
important bits of automake.in are, it seems to me, written in a pretty 
functional style anyway.  And scsh is POSIX, portable, and pretty 
lightweight.

Not that I'm volunteering, mind....




On 2004 Aug 5 , at 22.05, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:

> [...] back in the days when Guile & Scheme were described to be 
> superior to Perl and Tcl.

<lots-of-stuff-from-me-I-thought-better-of-for-obvious-reasons-but...>

It is not a universally held opinion that Perl and Tcl are good 
implementation languages for medium- to large-sized projects.

All the best,

Norman


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