Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!decwrl!shelby!polya!carcoar.Stanford.EDU!wilson From: wilson@carcoar.Stanford.EDU (Paul Wilson) Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme Subject: vanilla Scheme code now or in future? Message-ID: <7336@polya.Stanford.EDU> Date: 2 Mar 89 18:28:26 GMT Sender: USENET News System Reply-To: wilson@carcoar.Stanford.EDU (Paul Wilson) Organization: Stanford University Lines: 42 The response to my request for vanilla Scheme code was less than overwhelming. Other than the Gabriel benchmarks (translated by Will Clinger) and the examples from Abelson and Sussman (with Sussman), I only got one other program. (By the way, thanks to the several people who offered to send me the SICP & Gabriel code. I responded to everybody by mail, but some of the mail seems to have bounced.) There doesn't seem to be much vanilla (e.g., unextended R3RS) Scheme code out there, so now I need to assess my options for gathering statistics. I can port code from other Schemes, wait for more vanilla code to become available, or stick my gc into another language processor such as Kyoto CL or T. Naturally, I'd rather just wait for code to pop up if it won't be too long. Is anybody working on large programs that will be available within the next year or so? Are there projects to produce important pieces of code in portable Scheme, the way there are for Common Lisp (e.g., REDUCE, OPS5)? Does anybody have any serious programs written in something *close* to vanilla Scheme? I might write some compatibilty macros, etc., and try to run some PC/Mac/Chez Scheme or T code, but I wouldn't want to work too hard at that. (If it's too hairy, I'll just use a different language/processor.) Any comments or advice on this? Thanks, Paul Paul R. Wilson Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory lab ph.: (312) 413-0042 U. of Ill. at Chi. EECS Dept. (M/C 154) Box 4348 Chicago,IL 60680 wilson@carcoar.stanford.edu Paul R. Wilson Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory lab ph.: (312) 413-0042 U. of Ill. at Chi. EECS Dept. (M/C 154) Box 4348 Chicago,IL 60680 wilson@carcoar.stanford.edu