On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 06:27:16PM -0800, Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
That may be. However, I am tired of the "Oh, it just takes a couple of hours to implement" that pervades the Scheme folks when they talk about implementations.
48 hours being the famous, actual, number. That 48 hours included a reader, writer, byte-code compiler, byte-code interpreter, and garbage collector. It was done after a lisp conference, before the two people who wrote it had to depart. Fortunately, they spent the time to then turn the toy into a real useful system, affectionately called Scheme 48. David -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
