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- From: mwm@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us (Mike Meyer)
- Subject: Re: LISP - Don't use it.
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- References: <1992Nov6.220216.2313@sth.frontec.se> <BxBn4w.7oM@fc.hp.com>
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- Date: 6 Nov 92 22:38:48 PST
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- In <BxBn4w.7oM@fc.hp.com>, koren@fc.hp.com (Steve Koren) wrote:
- > perfect language for such a thing. I've actually toyed around with the
- > idea of making an interprocess LISP using the same conventions that ARexx
- > uses now, so one could have the power of LISP and use all those ARexx
- > applications.
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- I did more than toy around with it - I did it. The Scheme system I use
- has access better access to ARexx messaging facilities than ARexx
- does. Being able to use backquoted SEXPRs blows away Rexx string
- handling. I can send you the documentation on the interface(s) if you
- want - there's one just a bit higher than the C interface, and a
- Rexx/Scheme level above that.
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- It's just that Scheme isn't as lightweight as Rexx, being closer in
- size to CanDo than to ARexx, and there isn't a shared Scheme library
- to encapsulate most of the code, so I tend to use Rexx scripts instead
- of Scheme programs.
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