client-server

Rob Browning rlb@cs.utexas.edu
04 Jan 2001 10:33:33 -0600


linas@linas.org writes:

> Hmmm ... maybe its a job for (drum roll) !**! scheme!
> 
> we've already got g-wrap to convert our C structs & api to scheme:
> it allows the scheme code to push & poke values into the C structs.
> 
> Now, if someone were to write a scheme-to-soap thingy, we'd be set.
> (The perl-to-soap thingy took 'one programer two weeks' according to 
> the faq.)

Well, getting g-wrap to spit out something other than libguile C code
wouldn't be all that hard.  I pushed most of the way to that level of
abstraction with the last rewrite.  There'd be a few more things to be
done, but as I think about it, maybe not that much.

> I'm hitting Rob on his weak spot.  Just say 'this will benefit the scheme
> language' and he gets all excited ... 

:>

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