On 21 June 2010 06:09, Robert Ransom <rransom.8...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 16:00:44 +0200 > Alexander Teinum <atei...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > Use Scheme. See Scheme 48 <http://s48.org/> for a nice, simple >> > implementation to start hacking on. > >> This thread is about a replacement for X, but we’re also discussing >> development of “regular” applications. What exactly would you >> recommend Scheme for? > > Scheme *should* be used for almost everything -- bootloaders, OS > kernels, hardware drivers, tiny user utilities (like (Plan 9) ls and > mc; Unix ls no longer qualifies as a tiny utility, and should not be > written at all), long-running servers, etc. -- everything but x86 boot > sectors should be written in Scheme.
I think some dudes attempted this using Dylan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_(programming_language) a while ago in the BogkOS efforts, but it failed miserably, it was even worse than GNU turd. Cheers, Anselm
