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From: wware@world.std.com (Will Ware)
Subject: Re: Ousterhout article on scripting applies to scheme
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Scott Schwartz (schwartz@galapagos.cse.psu.edu.NO-SPAM) wrote:
: shriram@ollie.cs.rice.edu (Shriram Krishnamurthi) writes:
: | I think Ousterhout's notion of a glue language is essentially bogus.
: Given the number of success stories he cites, that's hard to
: understand.

I have only skimmed the article so far, but one thing struck me immediately.
At one point he gives an "anecdotal" table where something is programmed
originally in C or C++, at enormous expense in programmer hours, and then
re-implemented in Tcl/Perl/whatever in ten or fifteen minutes. It would be
interesting to see if the same skew existed for programs that were written
in scripting languages (or for that matter, Lisp or Scheme or Python) first,
and then re-implemented in C or C++. It's hard to believe the ratios would
be as large.
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