25 Dec
2019
25 Dec
'19
11:50 p.m.
On Tue, Dec 24, 2019 at 09:46:18AM -0800, Bakul Shah wrote:
My scheme of choice is Gambit Scheme. Gambit is quite
portable &
fast. You can always compile to a binary if performance is an issue.
There is now Gerbil Scheme, that sits on top of Gambit and is geared
toward systems programming. It seems to provide a lot of additional
features, using Scheme’s extensibility but I haven’t used it yet.
https://cons.io/tutorials/ <https://cons.io/tutorials/>
Thanks. As it sometimes happens, I have Gambit on my system, among few
other Schemes. It just did not look attractive when I looked at
it. But I have unpacked the newest version and guess what, two years
later it looks better... I will have to write some small code snippets
to see how it behaves (slurping and sorting twenty million lines of
txt, something like this).
I find scheme code clear and concise (but not as
concise as array
languages such as k, my other language of choice, where I have to
relearn the code every time but then it is only a handful of lines.).
I think I will postpone learning APL and its cousins for a while. They
certainly had an edge when one could stuff complete solution on few
punched cards. This had to impress the by-lookers like hell, when
everybody had to tuck a box or few full of cards with them. On the
other hand, maybe I will have a look at k, who knows.
These days python has become quite the glue language,
used for all
sorts of things, from AI to GPIO fiddling. Not my favorite language
but a working knowledge in it has been useful.
Exactly my opinion too. I would say it makes for a nice sandbox
language where playing with stuff already inside is nice experience,
but doing new stuff, not so much.
I would have loved to use SmallTalk 30+ years ago. Now
not so much.
Ah. Maybe I should just stick with Gambit and relegate Smalltalk for a
low priority hobby/edu project.
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Regards,
Tomasz Rola
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