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Re: continuation theory (Re: Translators, yet once more)
- To: Guile <guile at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: continuation theory (Re: Translators, yet once more)
- From: Richard Guenther <richard dot guenther at student dot uni-tuebingen dot de>
- Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 11:31:15 +0200 (CEST)
On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Telford Tendys wrote:
[...]
> -- Guile should make it's primary target to be an extension language
> for applications. It should NOT attempt to be a scripting language,
> nor should it worry if other scheme implementations can do something
> that guile cannot do.
[...]
> -- Guile should not attempt to support a multi-threading system but it should
> be thread-friendly itself so that an application which uses threads can
> use guile. There is absolutely no value in an extension language that
> tries to spawn its own threads all over the place -- whoever is
> designing the application will make their own mind up about how many
> threads they need and what they are doing with them -- presume that the
> application designer is right sometimes.
Amen!
Richard.
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