Re: What is Guile?

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
>     > It is interesting to note that Java is much more the "multi-lingual
>     > framework", considering Kawa (Scheme in Java), 
> 
> This is still pretty good:
> 
>      http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~shivers/javaScheme.html
> 
> 
> JVM is a popular target for economic and political reasons, not
> technical ones.    In a technical sense, it's a lousy target.
> 
> As engineers, working to align the economics and politics with the
> technology is our job.

Indeed. The libraries as a motivation for selecting a language is also
an economical thing: it takes less time to develop on a platform with
good libraries.  Worse is better (tm).

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