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Re: [Chicken-users] Chicken not production quality?
From: |
Mario Domenech Goulart |
Subject: |
Re: [Chicken-users] Chicken not production quality? |
Date: |
10 Feb 2007 12:01:01 -0200 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 |
Hello Alex,
Welcome aboard. :-)
On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 10:22:54 -0300 "Alex Queiroz" <address@hidden> wrote:
> I'm new to Scheme in general. I've been studying with PLT Scheme
> but I'm now looking for a system to develop real applications. I've
> found Chicken and was impressed seeing how easy it is to make native
> applications. Nevertheless, the description of the Debian Chicken
> package contains:
>
> "CHICKEN is a Scheme compiler which compiles a subset of R5RS into C.
> It uses the ideas presented in Baker's paper "Cheney on the MTA", and
> is small and easily extendable, although not a production quality or
> high-performance Scheme system."
>
> Is this right? Why Chicken is not considered production quality?
That description is old. Take a look at:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/chicken-hackers/2006-12/msg00008.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/chicken-hackers/2006-12/msg00015.html
> Where do you people use it most,
I've been using it for most (if not all) of my programming activities,
which involve system administration, web development, work, fun etc.
> and where do you think it's not the right tool for the job?
Tough question. :-)
Best wishes,
Mario