| Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 13:47:19 -0500 | From: John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | Aubrey Jaffer scripsit: | | > Although the motivation for Scheme macros may have been to reduce | > the number of primitive forms, its effect has been the | > proliferation of mutually incomprehensible language dialects, as | > though R5RS was not sufficient in itself for all varieties of | > programming. | | The "Subtract one from data location N and if it becomes zero jump | to program location J" machine is also sufficient in itself for all | varieties of programming.
I have 70000 lines of mathematical, scientific, engineering, database, and scripting software written in Scheme showing that R5RS is sufficient without syntax extensions. How much one-instruction assembly code have you written? _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
