On May 24, 12:27 am, Deeyana <d.awlb...@hotmail.invalid> wrote: > > Classic unsubstantiated and erroneous claim. Scheme does not come OOTB > with any suitable libraries for host interop and though it can make calls > to C libraries, doing so is awkward and involves difficulties with the > impedance mismatch between Scheme's data structures and C's char *, void > *, int, double, array, etc. types. To top it off, C lacks automatic > memory management, which means you'll have to concern yourself with > manually disposing of allocated data structures used in interop. (Or, > worse, things will get garbage collected by the Scheme runtime that the > Scheme code no longer references, but the C library is still using, and > bam! SIGSEGV.) >
Classic unsubstantiated and erroneous claim. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list