Re: [Chicken-users] define-macro in chicken 4?

[Stephen Eilert]

On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Alejandro Forero Cuervo
<address@hidden> wrote:

> Alejo, seriously wishing he had picked Python, Perl or Java, rather
> than Chicken, 5 years ago.
> http://azul.freaks-unidos.net/

Really?

Perl
http://www.codesimplicity.com/post/when-is-backwards-compatibility-not-worth-it/

Python
* Haven't really checked the individual changelogs dating back 5+
years. Probably best of the bunch here (with from future import
<whatever>). And yet it does eventually break backwards compatibility.

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2008/12/python-3-0-sheds-backwards-compatibility.ars

Java
* Generally compatible, except for the changes listed, of course. And
you cannot use mix and match new and old code.

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/compatibility.html



--Stephen

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