On May 17, 2006, at 5:52 AM, Anselm R. Garbe wrote:
Show me a graphics adaptor driver written in Scheme to prove its general purpose facilities. I don't dismiss that Scheme has its place, but to me it is not a general purpose language, even Java or C++ are much more general purpose than Scheme or that Dylan stuff, because they are applicable on a greater domain of problems.
Scheme is as general purpose as any other language. There is no reason that you couldn't use a dialect of Scheme for systems programming. It may not be the best tool for the job, but C is hardly the best tool for any job either. In either case, most Schemes have a foreign function interface, so this is never an issue.
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