Re: Guile and MS-Windows on Major Govt. Project...

[Chris Bitmead]

> > Yeah, ok well they should be considered. But jscheme is an 
> > interpreter within an interpreter == unnecessarily slow. None of them 
> > technically are Scheme (no call/cc, blurry picture on full tail calls 
> > etc).
>
>
> I'm curious what you actually want to have full call/cc for - except 
> as a "check-off (completeness) item. 


As far as I know, I don't. Does anyone know prior to starting a project 
if it is needed? Also, what if I pull in an external library that uses 
it? Ok, I'm not quite experienced enough in Scheme to know how likely 
that is.

> > Kawa's type system makes it rather inconvenient to use Java libraries 
> > like Swing (strings in kawa are not strings in java etc). 
>
>
> Make up your mind :  Do you want complete Scheme?  If so you can't 
> have strings in Kawa be strings in Java,
> because the latter as immutable. 

I guess my point was, it would be nice if there is a complete Scheme 
with access to a good gui with a convenient API. Whether that may be a 
non-Java solution, or say a Java solution where somebody "wraps" up the 
Swing APIs with a Scheme sympathetic solution, converting types where 
necessary.

> However, Kawa does automatically and conveniently convert from Scheme 
> strings to Java strings.
> That's the best you can get if you want Scheme strings to be modifiable. 

I can't seem to see that in the documentation.

> > Neither have built in a nice CLOS-ish object system which makes life 
> > worth living.
>
>
> Kawa has a nice builtin CLOS-ish object system - but but it does need 
> work!  The design is
> quite nice, though.

I can't seem to see that in the documentation.