Re: Clients written in Guile.

[Marcus Brinkmann]

On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 02:44:50PM +0100, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
> One reason might be that the clients might get easier to
> maintain,

I question that.  I mean, for a guile expert it might be easier, and Guile
might provide better high level abstractions (garbage collection, libraries,
whatever).

The down side is that only someone who knows guile can maintain it, and
scheme can be so perverted that even if you know scheme a bit you have no
idea what is going on.  The way to program is different from C, Pascal and
the like (this is not a criticism, just a pragmatic aspect for the question
if we use it).  The other problem is that you add a lot of third party
source code that has bugs etc, while currently we only rely on the
toolchain, the C library, and some helper utilities like curses.  Adding so
much source code must always have a compelling reason, which I can not see
so far.

Thanks,
Marcus


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