Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!uhnix1!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme Subject: Re: extension languages can be darn small, yet still powerfull Message-ID: Date: 5 Sep 90 14:19:37 GMT References: <9008220403.AA03028@schizo> <1990Aug24.154118.22011@uwslh.slh.wisc.edu> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 10 In article <1990Aug24.154118.22011@uwslh.slh.wisc.edu> lishka@uwslh.slh.wisc.edu (a.k.a. Chri) writes: > Actually, the best extension language would be something that is > "universal" and not tied to any one application. REXX/AREXX serves > this purpose very well, from what I understand. It to is a small but > powerful language, although it is certainly not lisp-like. One thing you frequently want to do in extension languages is manipulate code as data, to do things like saving definitions you're working on. This is easy in lisp like languages (like lisp itself, or scheme, or TCL) but a pain in algol-like languages (like REXX). -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U` peter@ferranti.com