Christopher Browne wrote:
> Frankly, it's utterly unimportant if there are thousands of people out
> there in "Internet-Land" that think Scheme is a ludicrous choice if, in
> contrast, the core developers of GnuCash _all_ happen to like Scheme.
> If the latter fact is true [and if not directly tru
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:09:10 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as
Ariel Rios <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> > I think this is a little bit disingenuous. Nobody outside the
> > gnucash-devel list is requiring gnucash to use Scheme, least of all
> > RMS; in point of fact, hardly any GNU projects ac
Bill Gribble writes:
> On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 03:53:49PM +1100, Robert Graham Merkel wrote:
> > Hey grib, I'm almost to the point of doing useful things
> > with panes (finally). One of the final things that needs
> > to be in place is a renderer along the lines of the
> > gnc:html-*foo*-r
On 15-Jan-2001, Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> By the way, I went and bought a Scheme book today at my favorite technical
> bookstore (Op-Amp Books in Los Angeles). I asked the clerk where the Scheme
> books were and he sniggered... there was an entire wall of C++ books,
> and just four b
Dan Kegel wrote:
> Now I'm reading about car, cdr, caar, cddr, cadr, cdar, and the like.
> How nice that all the keywords of the language are so intuitive and high-level,
> uninfluenced by the hardware the language originally ran on.
Forgot the URL for the origin story of those keywords. It's
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Ariel Rios wrote:
>
> > I think this is a little bit disingenuous. Nobody outside the
> > gnucash-devel list is requiring gnucash to use Scheme, least of all
> > RMS; in point of fact, hardly any GNU projects actually use Scheme
> > anyway, despite several years of drum-beating to get it to happ
> I think this is a little bit disingenuous. Nobody outside the
> gnucash-devel list is requiring gnucash to use Scheme, least of all
> RMS; in point of fact, hardly any GNU projects actually use Scheme
> anyway, despite several years of drum-beating to get it to happen.
False. Many GNOME applica
Eugene Tyurin wrote:
>
> Many years ago (circa 1988) I remember briefly trying out some
> package called Texas Instruments' Scheme. Back then I thought it
> looked like a dialect of Lisp with some additional system and GUI
> toolkits.
>
> Is that "The Scheme" we're talking about?
S
Many years ago (circa 1988) I remember briefly trying out some
package called Texas Instruments' Scheme. Back then I thought it
looked like a dialect of Lisp with some additional system and GUI
toolkits.
Is that "The Scheme" we're talking about?
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Gribble) writes:
> I've written big programs in C, C++, Common LISP, and Scheme, and
> small programs in lots and lots of languages. For working on big
> programs, right at this time I can't think of any way I'd rather do
> it than as a combination of Scheme and C. Schem
"Dirk-Jan C . Binnema" writes:
> On Tue Jan 16, 2001 at 05:51:31PM +1100, Robert Graham Merkel wrote:
> > Ariel Rios writes:
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Dan Kegel wrote:
> > >
> > > > I'm sure this has been discussed a zillion times but I'd like to bring
> it up again:
> > > >
On Tue Jan 16, 2001 at 05:51:31PM +1100, Robert Graham Merkel wrote:
> Ariel Rios writes:
> >
> >
> > On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Dan Kegel wrote:
> >
> > > I'm sure this has been discussed a zillion times but I'd like to bring it up
>again:
> > >
> > > Requiring that all high-level Gnucash c
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 06:37:59PM +, Al Snell wrote:
> > On the other hand, perhaps you folks are using "ability to program
> > Scheme" in the same way Linus is using "ability to debug kernel
> > problems without a kernel debugger", i.e. as an IQ filter to keep
> > dumb people from contributi
Al Snell wrote:
>
> On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Dan Kegel wrote:
> > On the other hand, perhaps you folks are using "ability to program Scheme"
> > in the same way Linus is using "ability to debug kernel problems without
> > a kernel debugger", i.e. as an IQ filter to keep dumb people from contributing
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Dan Kegel wrote:
> On the other hand, perhaps you folks are using "ability to program Scheme"
> in the same way Linus is using "ability to debug kernel problems without
> a kernel debugger", i.e. as an IQ filter to keep dumb people from contributing
> code. I respect that st
James LewisMoss wrote:
> >> > Requiring that all high-level Gnucash code be in Scheme might be
> >> > restricting the number of developers able to contribute to it.
> >> Why?
>
> Dan> Because there are very few people who know how to program in
> Dan> Scheme compared to the number of people
Ariel Rios wrote:
>
> > Because there are very few people who know how to program in Scheme
> > compared to the number of people who know how to program in C, C++, Java, or Perl.
> Basically your argument is: "Scheme is bad for there are not many
> programmers".
Nope, not saying Scheme is bad.
Hi,
I'm trying to build the latest GnuCash on Red Hat 6.2 but g-wrap seems
to have dropped support for guile 1.3. I don't want to update my
guile subsystem because I want to remain as close to "native 6.2" as
possible (also because I still want to build the 1.4 RPMs as they are
released).
So, i
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 03:53:49PM +1100, Robert Graham Merkel wrote:
> Hey grib, I'm almost to the point of doing useful things
> with panes (finally). One of the final things that needs
> to be in place is a renderer along the lines of the
> gnc:html-*foo*-render that are required to display g
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