On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 03:53:49PM +1100, Robert Graham Merkel wrote:
Hey grib, I'm almost to the point of doing useful things
with panes (finally). One of the final things that needs
to be in place is a renderer along the lines of the
gnc:html-*foo*-render that are required to display
Hi,
I'm trying to build the latest GnuCash on Red Hat 6.2 but g-wrap seems
to have dropped support for guile 1.3. I don't want to update my
guile subsystem because I want to remain as close to "native 6.2" as
possible (also because I still want to build the 1.4 RPMs as they are
released).
So,
Ariel Rios wrote:
Because there are very few people who know how to program in Scheme
compared to the number of people who know how to program in C, C++, Java, or Perl.
Basically your argument is: "Scheme is bad for there are not many
programmers".
Nope, not saying Scheme is bad. It
James LewisMoss wrote:
Requiring that all high-level Gnucash code be in Scheme might be
restricting the number of developers able to contribute to it.
Why?
Dan Because there are very few people who know how to program in
Dan Scheme compared to the number of people who know how to
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Dan Kegel wrote:
On the other hand, perhaps you folks are using "ability to program Scheme"
in the same way Linus is using "ability to debug kernel problems without
a kernel debugger", i.e. as an IQ filter to keep dumb people from contributing
code. I respect that
Al Snell wrote:
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Dan Kegel wrote:
On the other hand, perhaps you folks are using "ability to program Scheme"
in the same way Linus is using "ability to debug kernel problems without
a kernel debugger", i.e. as an IQ filter to keep dumb people from contributing
code.
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 06:37:59PM +, Al Snell wrote:
On the other hand, perhaps you folks are using "ability to program
Scheme" in the same way Linus is using "ability to debug kernel
problems without a kernel debugger", i.e. as an IQ filter to keep
dumb people from contributing
On Tue Jan 16, 2001 at 05:51:31PM +1100, Robert Graham Merkel wrote:
Ariel Rios writes:
On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Dan Kegel wrote:
I'm sure this has been discussed a zillion times but I'd like to bring it up
again:
Requiring that all high-level Gnucash code be in Scheme
"Dirk-Jan C . Binnema" writes:
On Tue Jan 16, 2001 at 05:51:31PM +1100, Robert Graham Merkel wrote:
Ariel Rios writes:
On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Dan Kegel wrote:
I'm sure this has been discussed a zillion times but I'd like to bring
it up again:
Requiring that
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Gribble) writes:
I've written big programs in C, C++, Common LISP, and Scheme, and
small programs in lots and lots of languages. For working on big
programs, right at this time I can't think of any way I'd rather do
it than as a combination of Scheme and C. Scheme
Many years ago (circa 1988) I remember briefly trying out some
package called Texas Instruments' Scheme. Back then I thought it
looked like a dialect of Lisp with some additional system and GUI
toolkits.
Is that "The Scheme" we're talking about?
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Eugene Tyurin wrote:
Many years ago (circa 1988) I remember briefly trying out some
package called Texas Instruments' Scheme. Back then I thought it
looked like a dialect of Lisp with some additional system and GUI
toolkits.
Is that "The Scheme" we're talking about?
Scheme
I think this is a little bit disingenuous. Nobody outside the
gnucash-devel list is requiring gnucash to use Scheme, least of all
RMS; in point of fact, hardly any GNU projects actually use Scheme
anyway, despite several years of drum-beating to get it to happen.
False. Many GNOME
Ariel Rios wrote:
I think this is a little bit disingenuous. Nobody outside the
gnucash-devel list is requiring gnucash to use Scheme, least of all
RMS; in point of fact, hardly any GNU projects actually use Scheme
anyway, despite several years of drum-beating to get it to happen.
Dan Kegel wrote:
Now I'm reading about car, cdr, caar, cddr, cadr, cdar, and the like.
How nice that all the keywords of the language are so intuitive and high-level,
uninfluenced by the hardware the language originally ran on.
Forgot the URL for the origin story of those keywords. It's
On 15-Jan-2001, Dan Kegel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
By the way, I went and bought a Scheme book today at my favorite technical
bookstore (Op-Amp Books in Los Angeles). I asked the clerk where the Scheme
books were and he sniggered... there was an entire wall of C++ books,
and just four books
Bill Gribble writes:
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 03:53:49PM +1100, Robert Graham Merkel wrote:
Hey grib, I'm almost to the point of doing useful things
with panes (finally). One of the final things that needs
to be in place is a renderer along the lines of the
gnc:html-*foo*-render
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:09:10 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as
Ariel Rios [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I think this is a little bit disingenuous. Nobody outside the
gnucash-devel list is requiring gnucash to use Scheme, least of all
RMS; in point of fact, hardly any GNU projects actually
Christopher Browne wrote:
Frankly, it's utterly unimportant if there are thousands of people out
there in "Internet-Land" that think Scheme is a ludicrous choice if, in
contrast, the core developers of GnuCash _all_ happen to like Scheme.
If the latter fact is true [and if not directly true,
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