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Re: [Chicken-users] Clojure
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Peter Bex |
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Re: [Chicken-users] Clojure |
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Thu, 2 Jul 2009 22:23:02 +0200 |
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On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 04:12:17PM -0400, bill wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> It got me thinking, however. Java is a complex abomination, but it
> does have one thing in it's favor - the JVM and the endless libraries
> you'll find there. Whenever I tell people how great Chicken Scheme is
> they always come back to me with the same agrument they use against Lisp
> - it just doesn't have the breadth of libraries needed in the real
> world. There are a lot of eggs, but not some key ones (PNG and GTK
> for instance)
>
> How do we change this and compete with the ideas behind Clojure and
> Scala? Scheme is a much better language.
The best way to change this is to write these missing eggs!
Also, we have a javahack egg, so we can still make some use of what
the JVM has to offer. I've never used it because I won't touch Java
with a 10-foot pole, so I don't know how good it is.
Cheers,
Peter
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