Re: The crux of people's issues with PLT Scheme?

On Jan 20, 12:20 pm, Marek Kubica <ma...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Not everyone values speed above functionality and PLT brings a lot of
the latter:

 * Command line parsing
 * Units
 * Scrible
 * R6RS support
 * Quite extensive documentation
 * Friendly mailing list
 * A nice editor, well integrated
 * An easy to use toolkit
 * useful, graphical macro expander
 * debugger
 * web-server
 * package repository (PLaneT)
 * graph plotting
 * access to OpenGL
 * SSL support
 * Lazy Scheme
 * COM integration on Windows

There's a lot more, this is just the things that come to my mind at
first. I haven't used everything there and I'm sure Bigloo also has
some of these features but this might give you an impression why people
choose PLT.

regards,
Marek

I acknowledge there is probably a lot more in store for PLT library
wise. However, at the same time I fail to understand what might be so
exciting in investing time, energy, and manpower in a dog slow PLT
implementation. Speed is simply an issue. comp.lang.python e.g. is
full of threads which discuss 'speed'. Instead that we learn from
them and start using Bigloo (because a fast, mature Scheme is already
out there) people are tricked into all the slow Scheme implementations
instead.

There are a lot of Python projects aimed to speed up Python. And in
the end Scheme will have lost the game.

I can understand that the PLT developers are not keen to contribute to
a french academic project (and vice versa) even though bigloo is open
source. Academics gave us Scheme but at the same time are the biggest
impediment for a grant collaboration.

.

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