Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!swbatl!texbell!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme Subject: Re: what makes scheme? Message-ID: Date: 9 Aug 90 14:40:08 GMT References: <9008031618.AA02461@mailhost.samsung.com> <1990Aug5.175401@sprawl.yorku.ca> <5752@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 9 In article <5752@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM> mayer@hplabs.hp.com (Niels Mayer) writes: > In particular, xscheme (and it's older brother xlisp) are designed to be > small & portable enough to run on MS-DOS machines (and amigas, macs, etc) In a multitasking system with limited resources, too many copies of Xlisp hanging around together are going to eat your lunch. And, unlike TCL, it's not really well designed as a shared library. (still looking for a reasonably small, portable, and fast extension language) -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U`