Re: [Jscheme-user] Question

[Timothy J. H. <ti...@cs...>]

On Feb 14, 2005, at 2:40 PM, Allegrini Christophe Bird Technology wrote:

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>  Timothy and JScheme users,
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> Hello,
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> Follow my previous email, I am ready to spend time to contribute to=20
> the evolution of JScheme.
Great...


> I think this project must live and evolve.
JScheme will definitely continue.
I will soon be adding one of my graduate students as another Developer
and we'll work on writing up a description of the JScheme internals to=20=

make it easier
for people to understand the source code.

> I have two little questions :
>  =A0=A0=A0 Does there exist a roadmap for JScheme?
The current game plan for JScheme is
  * fix bugs as they arise
  * improve performance where possible (e.g. we are working on an=20
optimizing  Scheme->Java compiler)
  * extend javadot so that it runs nicely under Java 1.5 on all =
platforms
  * remain backward compatible
  * make it easier for people to use JScheme
     - more documentation
     - more sample code
I would like JScheme to remain relatively small. One of the nice things=20=

about Scheme is that it
is a concise language. JScheme adheres to the philosophy of "small and=20=

simple is good" by adding
relatively few features (javadot, Threads, Exceptions, modules).

I would be very interested in hearing what other JScheme users would=20
like to see in future
versions of the language.

We could be "BOLD" and create radically new versions of JScheme that=20
would not be backward compatible,
but this would require us to maintain bug fixes on multiple branches of=20=

the development tree. I'm not
completely opposed to that, but I would prefer to keep JScheme simple=20
and just polish it so that it is
a very nice, clean, powerful tool.



>  =A0=A0=A0 Are there documents describing internal architecture?
Not yet, but this is part of the "more documentation" part of the game=20=

plan.



Cheers,
---Tim---

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> Best Regards,
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> Christophe Allegrini
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> www.birdtechnology.net