Re: GNU and Lisp

[Luis F. Araujo]

Richard M. Stallman wrote:

>      I can't imagin why someone would want to write a
>    translator in scheme for example, but being able to interact with
>    translators is far more plausible (setting translators on a node,
>    removing, getting information about them, etc).
>
> If it makes sense to write translators in Perl or Ruby, it makes
> sense to write them in Scheme.  I only wonder whether it will run
> fast enough to be useful.
Last time i ran a scheme (little) program from GNU/Hurd, the
speed was very good. I don't think it'd be too much of
a concern. And since we are using Guile, it'd be easy to combine
the code with critical C code.