2.6 Release -- SCheme

[Derek Atkins]

On Sat, December 31, 2011 5:46 pm, Mike Alexander wrote:
> --On December 31, 2011 6:22:55 PM +0000 Hendrik Boom
> <hendrik at topoi.pooq.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 18:19:58 +0100, Geert Janssens wrote:
>>
>> This is probably a more drastic change than guile 2.0, but:
>>
>> There's another implementation of Scheme available that actually
>> compiles  Scheme to C or C++ -- Gambit-C.  You can actually embed C++
>> code within  the C code, even #include stuff.  There's also an
>> interpreter, but the  interpreter doesn't have embedded C/C++ code,
>> though it can call  previously compiled code that does.  The Debian
>> package is called gambc. I have no idea whether this would be easier
>> to use and maintain than  using guile.
>
> I don't know anything about Gambit-C, but it's also available in
> MacPorts on MacOSX.  The description sounds promising.  The home page
> is at <http://dynamo.iro.umontreal.ca/~gambit/wiki/index.php/Main_Page>
> where they also link to Windows (and iPad!) installers.

Is it really worth our time to find another scheme implementation and swap
everything over to it?  I would think that it would be better to write a
report infrastructure in a language that would seem more "popular"
(python), build in the infrastructure, and then send out a call for report
writers to convert the existing scheme reports over to the new language.

>          Mike

-derek
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