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- From: vanMeule@cup.portal.COM
- Subject: random rant on random files
- Message-ID: <9208130624.1.11214@cup.portal.com>
- Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
- Organization: The Internet
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 13:24:07 GMT
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- I feel a little upset at Scheme for lack of direct support in
- most Schemes for random files. These are essential for business
- programming. Scheme should and could revolutionize business and
- supplant BASIC with all its basic flaws if Scheme provided a
- library routine for random files that was part of the definition.
-
- BTW, I think Scheme should go the way of C and make use of
- libraries in order to make the core image tiny enough to fit on
- Apple IIe's with 64K of memory--that is an ideal worth fighting
- for, else Scheme is not a revolution for everyone.
-
- Any comments that might help me towards my desire to be able to
- do real business programming in Scheme???
-
- Cheers!
-