Re: [dev] Interesting post about X11

On 21 June 2010 06:09, Robert Ransom <rransom.8774_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 16:00:44 +0200
> Alexander Teinum <ateinum_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> > Use Scheme.  See Scheme 48 <http://s48.org/> for a nice, simple
>> > implementation to start hacking on.
>
>> This thread is about a replacement for X, but we’re also discussing
>> development of “regular” applications. What exactly would you
>> recommend Scheme for?
>
> Scheme *should* be used for almost everything -- bootloaders, OS
> kernels, hardware drivers, tiny user utilities (like (Plan 9) ls and
> mc; Unix ls no longer qualifies as a tiny utility, and should not be
> written at all), long-running servers, etc. -- everything but x86 boot
> sectors should be written in Scheme.

I think some dudes attempted this using Dylan
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_(programming_language) a while ago
in the BogkOS efforts, but it failed miserably, it was even worse than
GNU turd.

Cheers,
Anselm
Received on Mon Jun 21 2010 - 12:09:38 UTC