Just wondering -- is there any level of compatibility between Gambit and Racket (nee PLT Schene) beyond the fact that both implement Scheme?
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On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 10:21:36PM -0400, Marc Feeley wrote:
On 2010-10-13, at 9:55 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
Just wondering -- is there any level of compatibility between Gambit and Racket (nee PLT Schene) beyond the fact that both implement Scheme?
What form of "compatibility" are you interested in?
Just wondering how much effort it would be to try and straddle the fence and write a nontrivial program that can be made to run on both systems, modula a few custom modules for each system.
Yes, I know this is vague. But the program hasn't been written yet.
-- hendrik
On 2010-10-13, at 10:28 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 10:21:36PM -0400, Marc Feeley wrote:
On 2010-10-13, at 9:55 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
Just wondering -- is there any level of compatibility between Gambit and Racket (nee PLT Schene) beyond the fact that both implement Scheme?
What form of "compatibility" are you interested in?
Just wondering how much effort it would be to try and straddle the fence and write a nontrivial program that can be made to run on both systems, modula a few custom modules for each system.
Yes, I know this is vague. But the program hasn't been written yet.
I guess it depends on what you want to implement. I wrote the Gambit compiler in pure R4RS code. It has over 25 KLOC and up till a few years ago you could load it in any R5RS conformant system. Now if you are writing a video game, or a web server, that might be a different story (because you'll need some external libraries and Gambit and Racket have different, although similar, FFIs).
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