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From: smcl@sytex.com (Scott McLoughlin)
Subject: Re: Dynamic inheritance using Scheme?
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Date: Thu, 16 Feb 1995 18:55:44 GMT
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"Carl Bruggeman" <bruggema@cs.indiana.edu> writes:

> 
>   3) Performance. Compiler limitations often become obvious when
>      parts of the runtime system are moved from C to Scheme.  Much
>      more importantly, however, these performance problems are likely
>      to get fixed _much_ faster when the compiler writer has to live with
>      them day in and day out...  For example, unless the compiler

Howdy,
        Amen.  Divide Lisp into <core>+<libraries> and we'll get
core language designs and implementations that are good enough to
write libraries in! 
        I see this as _essential_ to the "success" of Lisp family
languages. No _way_ is the Lisp community gonna keep up with the
rate of growth of "standard system services". Used to be TTY's;
now GUI's; today and tommorow is database API's, email API's,
component library API's, etc. etc.

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Scott McLoughlin
Conscious Computing
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