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Re: In search of cool Scheme
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Sam Tregar |
Subject: |
Re: In search of cool Scheme |
Date: |
Tue, 22 May 2001 12:02:51 -0400 (EDT) |
As much as I would enjoy a good Perl-V-Scheme language war, at least at
first, I'm going to resist the temptation. If you truly want to know what
I think Perl has going for it that Scheme lacks (*cough* CPAN *cough*
community *cough*) then you may feel free to contact me privately.
Now, on to your less flame-worthy thoughts:
On 22 May 2001, Alex Shinn wrote:
> Likewise, the one "feature" of Scheme which is hard to reproduce in
> Perl is the minimal syntax. This makes it easy to parse and build
> dynamic Scheme. For example, the structure of Scheme is very similar
> to XML, and there's an XML parser at
>
> http://www.lh.com/~oleg/ftp/Scheme/xml.html
That does look interesting, but I don't know how I can turn that into a
nice snippet... Thanks for the pointer though. Maybe I can troll the
source for some inspiration.
> If you search on /. for recent articles about Yahoo and/or Lisp, there
> was one recently where the creator of Yahoo Store explains he was so
> successful because he chose Lisp as a language, and cited macros as
> the single most important feature. Scheme provides two types of
> macros, one like Lisp and a cleaner version (syntax rules).
Actually, that's why I'm here! I read that article and had a sudden urge
to do something with Scheme. I learned a bit in school and enjoyed it...
Now I'd like to see if I can find a place for Scheme in my work as a
web application developer. At least for me that means I need a Perl
interface. Hence Guile.pm and Inline::Guile - coming soon to a theater
near you.
> So I guess the advantages are more subtle, and thus it's hard to come
> up with cute little code snippets of things that are hard in Perl.
> Maybe something using force/delay or string-port handling? You can do
> interesting things with continuations, but that might just scare
> people away :-)
Well, you've given me some interesting ideas. Perhaps the whole idea of
"tiny bit of magic code" is too Perlish to begin with. Still, I
definitely have to find something better than "Hello, world.".
Thanks,
-sam
- Re: In search of cool Scheme, (continued)
- Re: In search of cool Scheme, Klaus Schilling, 2001/05/22
- Re: In search of cool Scheme, Hans O. Lowe, 2001/05/22
- Re: In search of cool Scheme, Hans O. Lowe, 2001/05/23
- Re: In search of cool Scheme, Harvey J. Stein, 2001/05/23
- Re: In search of cool Scheme, Hans O. Lowe, 2001/05/23
- Re: In search of cool Scheme, Harvey J. Stein, 2001/05/24
- Re: In search of cool Scheme, Harvey J. Stein, 2001/05/24
- Re: In search of cool Scheme, Hans O. Lowe, 2001/05/24
Re: In search of cool Scheme, Alex Shinn, 2001/05/22
- Re: In search of cool Scheme,
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