Hugh, greetings. I think list members might experience a certain amount of surprise at your conclusions...
On 2012 Nov 20, at 02:34, Hugh Aguilar wrote: > For a numerical program it is necessary to have mixed-precision arithmetic. > [...] Scheme, Python, Ruby, C/C++, Fortran, Java, etc., don't have this ...that Fortran is unsuitable for numerical programming, > but we are all hobbyists anyway, so it is not like our time is real valuable > anyway. :-) ...that the people on the list earning their livings with Scheme dialects are hobbyists, > this is the kind of program that Scheme was designed for. ...and that Scheme was designed as a scripting language. It might be worth getting a little further along in your study of a couple of Scheme dialects, before arriving at quite such confident conclusions. Best wishes, Norman -- Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
