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Re: PHP fork project- Guile vs Python vs ?
- To: "Trevor Lowing" <tlowing at hotmail dot com>
- Subject: Re: PHP fork project- Guile vs Python vs ?
- From: Jost Boekemeier <jostobfe at linux dot zrz dot TU-Berlin dot DE>
- Date: 05 Jul 2000 21:12:16 +0200
- Cc: rms at gnu dot org, guile at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <20000705145131.55816.qmail@hotmail.com>
"Trevor Lowing" <tlowing@hotmail.com> writes:
> There seems to be some indication of module support
> being added, but not much information I could find. Again, a documentation
> issue.
Please wait, I haven't had much time in the last couple of months.
> Would it be faster?
I think it would be difficult to write an evaluator that is faster
than Qscheme.
> Would a PHP interpreter implemented in Guile be fast enough to
> handle the job?
If you compile to R4RS Scheme, you can select any Scheme implementation
you want.
> Since Scheme has been around for quite awhile, how difficult would
> it be to implement modules to provide more advanced functionality
> like special math or graphics libraries?
Have you looked at the Scheme Repository or at the MZScheme packages?
> @hotmail.com>
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Jost