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

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

Some people love Common LISP, and that's great. As a language for
writing systems-type programs like compilers, it wouldn't be my first
choice -- and I say that speaking as someone who used to use LISP pretty
actively.

In any case, I think the topic is resolved.


shap

On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 03:50 +0100, Pierre THIERRY wrote:
> Scribit Jonathan S. Shapiro dies 27/11/2006 hora 14:25:
> > > 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.
> 
> Well, why not Common Lisp, then? It has a very complete standard
> library, and huge set of portable libraries.
> 
> Though obviously CL has a very smaller number of available programmers
> than Java or C#...
> 
> Curiously,
> Pierre
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