On 2010-12-23, at 19:37, John Cowan wrote, quoting me: >> When I review the WG1 draft, one of my test cases will be `can I >> write a portable WG1 Scheme program to play blackjack, without needing >> peculiar circumlocutions'. > > There surely won't be an appropriate GUI, since neither WG1 nor WG2 is > opening that can of long, intricate, wriggling worms. It's not clear > whether WG1 will provide a random number source, or whether you'll have > to roll your own. Otherwise I don't see a big problem.
I would be pretty strongly against including any GUI support in Scheme, even if there were anyone to propose it. The kind of projects I envision use a terminal interface, the kind of thing you'd find in a CS1 class sometime in 1975. I want to try to identify a WG1 configuration of things you'd need for an introductory programming course. That may not match the most minimal Scheme system, the one with only integers and very few builtins (hey, I remember using PDP-8 Lisp), but it's a useful base for people who want to learn Scheme. That's one of the (but not the only) goal(s) of WG1. -- vincent _______________________________________________ Scheme-reports mailing list [email protected] http://lists.scheme-reports.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scheme-reports
