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Re: Guile for IPC


Paul Workman <paulcw@best.com> writes:

> I'm completely new to Guile (though I'm familiar with Scheme), but as I
> understand it it sounds like it might be appropriate for an application
> I've been musing about.  In the application, a server and clients would
> communicate by sending Guile/Scheme expressions back and forth. Has anyone
> else tried this or thought about doing it?  If so, how did it work?  Is it
> a stupid idea?

Yes, I've done this, and it worked great.  It gives you tremendous
flexibility when building the client applications.

-russ

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