On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 07:26:04PM -0400, John Nowak wrote: > > 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.
I agree that judging a language 'general purpose' or not because of its wide-spreadness is dumb. Sorry. Regards, -- Anselm R. Garbe ><>< www.ebrag.de ><>< GPG key: 0D73F361 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://wmii.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/wmii
