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From: bruce@liverpool.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Extension/Scripting language comparisons
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>>>>> "Matthias" == Matthias Blume <blume@dynamic.cs.princeton.edu> writes:

> `Close' in what metric?  IMO, the two are very far apart, since
> Guile has given up on simplicity and lack of redundancy.

I meant close in the sense of what changes would be needed to a
typical R4RS compliant program for it to run in Guile.  I agree Guile
seems to be gathering a lot of cruft (cruft needed to make it similar
to emacs-lisp).

Some things are unnecessary (except for emacs-lisp compatibility), but
some are surely things that'll get into scheme at some point, simply
because they're so useful, and because it's useful to have only one
implementation.  Packages spring to mind.
-- 
Bruce                   Institute of Advanced Scientific Computation
bruce@liverpool.ac.uk   University of Liverpool
http://supr.scm.liv.ac.uk/~bruce/

