2.6 Release -- SCheme

Ted Creedon tcreedon at easystreet.net
Sun Jan 1 10:00:08 EST 2012


this talk is all well & good but meanwhile GC is inoperable on updated
distros using Guile 2.0.

I think one should bite the bullet and eliminate swig/guile.

Tedc

On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 4:51 AM, Donald Allen <donaldcallen at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 2:39 AM, Gour <gour at atmarama.net> wrote:
> > On Sat, 31 Dec 2011 18:36:28 -0500
> > Mike Alexander <mta at umich.edu> wrote:
> >
> >> Python is popular now, but will it be in 10 years?  I've seen
> >> lots of languages come and go.
> >
> > That's true, but I bet it will be more popular than Scheme for sure.
> >
> > Moreover, we can speculate what will happen with GTK+ in 10 years, but
> > let's make GC more approachable *today*. ;)
>
> Well said.
>
> We do things all the time (drive cars, fly in airplanes) that have a
> small, but non-zero, probability of a bad outcome. We just try to make
> smart bets, on a risk/benefit basis. I think choosing Python for this
> application is in that category.
>
> /Don
>
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > Gour
> >
> >
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