Re: Going Forward?

On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 6:03 PM, Nunez Steve <[email protected]> wrote:
> Gentlemen,
> Just a hypothetical question:
>
> If we/you/someone were to begin working on a system for system/shell
> programming in scheme, where would you start?
>
> There was some discussion a week or so ago about whether or not Scheme48 =
was
> the right choice.=A0Unfortunately=A0I've lost that email, and the scsh ma=
iling
> list archives stopped working back in 2007, which is further evidence of =
the
> slow death this project has died.
> So, if someone wanted to start development again, would it be best to:
> 1. Pick up with scsh 0.6.7
> 2. Start afresh?
>
> It is often the case that first efforts are learning exercises, and it ma=
y
> be that we can learn from scsh's initial effort.
> If the consensus is 'start over again', where would you start? MzSheme? M=
it
> Scheme, something else?
> Note that I'm not promising to do this. More than likely I'd just impleme=
nt
> those functions I need to support the work I'm doing and it wouldn't be a=
s
> generic as scsh is at the moment.

I'm trying to get going with the Guile port of Scsh, since Guile seems
much more alive and has better built-in error reporting and readline.
However, the port of Scsh to Guile is incomplete and buggy, so it may
take some work.

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Jonathan Rogers