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schwartz@roke.cse.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz) writes:

[lots of things...]

My experience almost exactly mirrors Scott Schwartz's.  And
I agree with him on absolutely every point he makes.  This
is just to point out that there are _many_ of us who still
are enamored of Scheme but find that when push comes to
shove perl/sed/awk/python/sh/C end up doing the real
systems programming or text related work; sometimes after a
failed attempt or two in Scheme -- failed due to lacking
functionality or performance requirements or time needed to
implement something in Scheme.

I will even help out with gel in the hope that a defacto
standard emerges and we get a tool that is efficient and
may be even small (that GNU connection worries me :-)).

>I was impressed with what I've seen of Oberon.  ALEF (a language used
>in Plan 9) seems reasonable, too.  Modula-3 is pretty nice, although
>the runtime system was pretty large the last time I checked it out.

From the description of it Alef looks pretty good.  Sort of
like Occam meets C :-)  Shouldn't be too hard to translate
to C.  I have a yacc parser for it if anyone is interested.

Bakul Shah
