From: Tom Phillips <tsphillips@omeninc.com>
To: guile-gtk@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Taking the defs file issue
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 04:17:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A0FDAC9.E6354AF9@omeninc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k8a8d70j.fsf@raven.localnet>
Rob Browning wrote:
>
> Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.ping.de> writes:
>
> > I quite strongly disagree with this. In my view, the functions
> > exported to the Scheme side must not be not be `dangerous' in the
> > sense that a pilot error can not lead to memory corruption, memory
> > leaks or similar.
>
> Well, I suppose this depends on your perspective, and what you want.
> If you want to create a tool that lets you do from scheme the same
> things you can do from C with a given C API, and if you want to
> provide a way for people to *quickly* wrap *existing* C APIs without
> having to write a lot of additional glue code, then I think it's going
> to be *very* difficult to avoid the "dangerous" things you're talking
> about.
As someone who's been using guile and guile-gtk, I'd like to throw in my
two cents. When I write in Scheme it's for its characteristics as a
functional language. Any time I have to break down and resort to
procedural constructs, or rely exclusively on side effects, the language
loses some appeal. If I also needed to worry about memory allocation and
deallocation, I think I'd be better off using another language, such as
C, for example. I realize that I'm just one programmer, but I believe
Scheme's functional aspects are what make it a good choice for certain
applications.
Tom Phillips
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-11-13 4:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2000-11-12 13:41 ` Rob Browning
2000-11-12 16:22 ` Marius Vollmer
2000-11-12 16:56 ` Rob Browning
2000-11-13 4:17 ` Tom Phillips [this message]
2000-11-15 6:42 ` Marius Vollmer
2000-11-15 10:36 ` Rob Browning
2000-11-12 12:01 Ariel Rios
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