Re: [Chicken-users] chicken and stalin

[Brandon Van Every]

On 6/4/07, John Cowan <address@hidden> wrote:
> Brandon Van Every scripsit:
> > Speed, to the exclusion of all other considerations, is not the real
> > world.  I can understand compiling portable Scheme code under any 2
> > different compilers.  I cannot fathom trying to get such code to
> > interoperate.  This thread reads like a Frankenstein support
> > nightmare.
>
> Developing code under Chicken is fairly straightforward; developing
> code under Stalin is painful in the extreme.  It therefore is plausible
> to have a Stalin-compatible library for Chicken that allows one to
> develop code that Stalin can handle after it is fully debugged under
> Chicken.  You can then gain the advantages of Stalin's massive
> optimizations to gain execution speed.

With no eggs.

This is infrastructurally lame.  Anyone who is that enamored with
speed deserves what they get.  Efforts would be better spent actually
creating a community around Stalin and showing some leadership
addressing its utter inadequacies.  C'mon guys, if you want to develop
with someone's FTP dump then you just don't appreciate what it takes
to do software.  Stalin properly exists as a research reference and
nothing more.


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every