[coyotos-dev] Accept GCJ into the tool chain?

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 14:01 -0500, Haplo wrote:
> You mention scheme? Scheme seems more suited to the constraints of  
> the task, assuming you have people who can learn it. Scheme is a  
> little out there, but it's an extremely useful language.

Actually, it's not. I'm a great Scheme fan, but there are two severe
problems with Scheme:

 1. There is no useful standard library. Even the most basic things
    like file I/O and character set handling are inadequately handled.

 2. The language specification admits of no conforming implementations.
    There is a foundational incompatibility between dynamic-wind and
    continuations. The Scheme community persistently ignores this.

Finally -- and this is a Coyotos issue -- Scheme is dynamically typed.
That's insufficiently robust for a Coyotos tool language.