Re: [Chicken-users] Choosing a programming language for a web project

[John Cowan]

Jean-Philippe Théberge scripsit:

> I guess (but maybe I'm wrong) that in some case, code written directly in
> C will be better than the C generated by chicken.

Floating-point code is not good, it's true, because Chicken boxes all
floats, but Web development doesn't need much of that.  Integer processing
loses something by being in Chicken, but almost everything else is about
as good in Chicken as in C, I'd say.

> How is the readeability of the chicken generated C?

I would say that you can eventually decipher it with practice, but it
is certainly not meant for readability.  Furthermore, each Scheme procedure
is broken into many C procedures with arbitrary names.

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