[r6rs-discuss] Interpreters need not apply?

From: Aubrey Jaffer <agj>
Date: Wed Mar 7 13:22:06 2007

 | Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 11:56:18 -0500
 | From: John Cowan <cowan_at_ccil.org>
 |
 | Aubrey Jaffer scripsit:
 |
 | > I have 70000 lines of mathematical, scientific, engineering,
 | > database, and scripting software written in Scheme showing that
 | > R5RS is sufficient without syntax extensions. How much
 | > one-instruction assembly code have you written?
 |
 | Diffidently I suggest that your code might have been substantially
 | shorter if it had made better use of the R5RS-provided mechanism
 | for syntactic abstraction.

Not much shorter. Using macros would have eliminated some LAMBDAs at
the price of making the code less maintainable. I am methodical in
abstracting repeated code into procedures so that when changes are
needed, they are needed in only a few places.
Received on Wed Mar 07 2007 - 13:21:20 UTC