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From: "William H. Nicholls" <nicholls@cdac.com>
Subject: Re: 10 Reasons Why Scheme is Better Than C/C++
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Fergus Henderson wrote:
> 
> In a blatant troll,
> songwut@stipple.seas.upenn.edu (GoldenEye) writes:
> 
> >1.Since Scheme has an interpreter, you can run individual functions and
> >play with your data structures
> >    without writing stubs.
> 
> Same is true of C and C++.
> 
That's right, I haven't seen a free one yet, but one can
certainly buy CodeCenter from CenterLine and type in
functions and interpret them all day.  Has dynamic
type and array bounds checking too.

-cheers,
-bill
