Re: [Jscheme-user] scheme-package - another Scheme in Java

[Geoffrey K. <ge...@kn...>]

On Monday, Aug 4, 2003, at 09:50 US/Eastern, Ken Anderson wrote:
> Access from Scheme to Java uses a pre javadot style.

For me, javadot notation is the innovation that makes JScheme a winner 
for me.  Especially when working in an environment where management 
dictates that, say, 90% of code must be in Java, the javadots help with 
the argument that, hey,

1.  JScheme is written in Java.

2.  See all these dots (Java method calls)?  Those are calls to 
standard JARs.

3.  See how JScheme calls to Java are more succinct than plain Java?

4.  You can translate/expand JScheme to plain Java if you have to.  You 
could probably even write a JScheme program to do that for you.

Still, it's nice to hear about "the scheme package" from 
http://koala.ilog.fr/shillion/sp/index.html .  I'll have to give it a 
whirl.  The more Scheme out there being used and refined, the better.

We need a JScheme "killer app," the way Emacs impressed people with the 
power of Lisp, and GIMP helped legitimize Scheme in the view of users.  
Any Scheme killer app would be nice.  It's confining to listen to 
people who think all software should be written in the fad of the 
decade {COBOL, C, Ada, Java, ...}.

Geoffrey
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