Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!cambridge.apple.com!alms From: alms@cambridge.apple.com (Andrew L. M. Shalit) Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme Subject: Re: Free Macintosh Scheme Message-ID: Date: 12 Jul 90 23:26:21 GMT References: <601@argosy.UUCP> <12383@yunexus.YorkU.CA> <606@argosy.UUCP> <305@fjcp60.GOV> <612@argosy.UUCP> Sender: news@cambridge.apple.com Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cambridge, MA Lines: 17 In-reply-to: freeman@argosy.UUCP's message of 12 Jul 90 19:26:37 GMT In article <612@argosy.UUCP> freeman@argosy.UUCP (Jay R. Freeman) writes: I do not provide source code for the system (but for the record, it is in MPW C and would be pretty hard to port to a non-Macintosh, since I use (and abuse) the Macintosh Toolbox widely). Jay - If you want to make your Scheme a real contribution, you should distribute it as source code. That way people could use it as the kernel of applications, and also include it as an extension language. (and also extend it themselves!) -andrew -- If my sig file were you alms@cambridge.apple.com it'd be reading this message now.