[Jscheme-user] Re: jscheme.* vs jsint.*

[Toby A. <tob...@pe...>]

On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 10:29:57PM -0400, Timothy John Hickey wrote:
> > Some days, i just miss Common Lisp.
> 
> Some day, I think a descendant of LISP and Java will be the dominant
> programming language (and maybe Jscheme will play a role in that
> evolution....)

I must say that after discovering Lisp it's painful to have to write
Java.  I don't have a lot of faith that the software industry will adopt
the features that make Lisp great any time soon though.  Instead people
fritter away their time on stuff like Groovy :-(

> > > P.S. Thanks for accepting my changes, it really makes my life a
> > > lot easier!
> 
> What applications are you working on that require (or call for....)
> these changes?

I want to be able to run arbitrary code inside an EJB that is deployed
on a running server without having to go through the whole
compile-deploy cycle.  The big idea is to make our J2EE application
scriptable, but the actual application that I'm using it for is unit
testing.

The requirement to have multiple threads executing independent Scheme
programs comes from the possibility that multiple client programs could
connect to our application and ask to run Scheme code simultaneously and
it would be bad if they interfered with each other.

Toby.