Re: Roadmap to lily code

[Darius Blasband]

Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:

> Darius Blasband wrote:
>
> > Interesting question though: if you had to do it again, would you 
> > still consider Scheme, or would you rather go for Python....
>
> Yes, that's an intriguing question.  I'm not sure, really. The # hack 
> could also have been done in Python, by requiring parentheses, I guess.

On the positive side, I guess - Nicolas might contradict me here - that 
Python would have enabled far more people to hack with
the internals., as the procedural-OO paradigm is more popular than 
functional programming. Besides, as far as I know, I would assume
that Python provides enough functional programming primitives for the 
cases where you truly needed them.

> I do wonder how what the impact on performance would have been. Python 
> objects are more heavyweight than SCMs, and the Garbage Collection 
> opened a lot of possibilities in developing Lily.
I though Python had a GC... Did I miss anything ?

D.