Re: Writing libraries for C programs using Guile Scheme

2014-03-08 Thread Mateusz Kowalczyk
On 09/03/14 00:40, Mike Gran wrote: > On Saturday, March 8, 2014 12:57 PM, Mateusz Kowalczyk > wrote: > > >> I'm asking how the perfect setup is going to be achieved. Simply writing >> the library in Guile does not make it secure (or maintainable for that >&g

Re: Writing libraries for C programs using Guile Scheme

2014-03-08 Thread Mateusz Kowalczyk
On 08/03/14 16:47, Stefan Israelsson Tampe wrote: > The beauty of scheme is that it is quite possible to design statically > typed meta language. Please spare me this approach. It certainly is possible but is a lot of effort and you get a gimped version of existing languages but without any real

Re: Writing libraries for C programs using Guile Scheme

2014-03-08 Thread Mateusz Kowalczyk
On 08/03/14 16:37, Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer wrote: > Mateusz Kowalczyk writes: > >> On 08/03/14 00:32, Mark H Weaver wrote: >>> Mateusz Kowalczyk writes: >>>> I doubt that going from a single inherently unsafe but bloody fast >>>> language to sli

Re: Writing libraries for C programs using Guile Scheme

2014-03-07 Thread Mateusz Kowalczyk
On 08/03/14 00:32, Mark H Weaver wrote: > Mateusz Kowalczyk writes: >> I doubt that going from a single inherently unsafe but bloody fast >> language to slightly less unsafe but much slower language is an >> advantage here… > > "Slightly less unsafe"? Ser

Re: Writing libraries for C programs using Guile Scheme

2014-03-07 Thread Mateusz Kowalczyk
On 07/03/14 16:30, Mateusz Kowalczyk wrote: > On 07/03/14 08:22, Peter TB Brett wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Recently, there have been some really horrible programming errors found in >> widely-used and security-critical libraries (GnuTLS, for example). >> >> T

Re: Writing libraries for C programs using Guile Scheme

2014-03-07 Thread Mateusz Kowalczyk
On 07/03/14 08:22, Peter TB Brett wrote: > Hi all, > > Recently, there have been some really horrible programming errors found in > widely-used and security-critical libraries (GnuTLS, for example). > > These libraries are usually written in C because C is a "lowest common > denominator": if a li

Re: Potluck dish -- a game

2014-02-19 Thread Mateusz Kowalczyk
On 19/02/14 08:52, Ścisław Dercz wrote: > Hi Mateusz! > > Nice to meet someone mathematically-oriented! I'm delighted with your care > about the proper use of algebraic language and am always eager to be > corrected. However this time there is no need to do so -- it IS a monoid, > one of those you

Re: Potluck dish -- a game

2014-02-19 Thread Mateusz Kowalczyk
On 19/02/14 07:28, Ścisław Dercz wrote: > Dnia 18 lutego 2014 19:27 "Thompson, David" > napisał(a): > >> On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 3:53 AM, Panicz Maciej Godek >> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> sorry that it took so long, but my friend Drcz wrote a clone of >>> Pandora game in Guile using my SLAYER framework.

Re: Potluck dish -- a game

2014-02-18 Thread Mateusz Kowalczyk
On 18/02/14 18:27, Thompson, David wrote: > On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 3:53 AM, Panicz Maciej Godek > wrote: >> Hi, >> sorry that it took so long, but my friend Drcz wrote a clone of >> Pandora game in Guile using my SLAYER framework. Due to some >> difficulties of a technical nature, I only managed