Re: A plea for mercy for a bandwidth (was: Re: Argument in favorof scripting (was: Re: A wysiwyg hebrew word processor))

2000-03-10 Thread Moshe Zadka
On Sat, 11 Mar 2000, Omer wrote: > Why should one think about: > * Embedding Tcl > * Embedding Perl > * Embedding ELisp > or something else, when there is guile? Simple: why I have a lot of faith in guile, it is pretty much vapourware at this stage. Yes, there is code to play with, but it isn't

Re: Re: A plea for mercy for a bandwidth

2000-03-10 Thread Omer
Dear Stanislav, Recently you had posted a reply to my message to this list. In this reply you complained about unusability of LISP as a scripting language. However, you had missed the point. guile is embeddable subsystem, which uses scheme variant as a reference language. Real power of guile c

Re: A plea for mercy for a bandwidth

2000-03-10 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
O>> or something else, when there is guile? O>> O>> It is designed from ground up to be as embeddable as beer, and no-one O>> requires you (although I would like to have such a law passed a O>> parliament) to use scheme syntax. It is the Right thing to use. Maybe there's still renegades which a

Re: A plea for mercy for a bandwidth (was: Re: Argument in favor of ...)

2000-03-10 Thread Omer Zak
On Sat, 11 Mar 2000, Omer wrote: > Sorry people, what is happening here? [... snipped ...] > ... This is true because such an approach allows > core develpers to focus on performance and stability, while branch > developers may focus on features. [... snipped ...] > The whole previous message i