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Re: continuation theory (Re: Translators, yet once more)


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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