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- From: root@ute.Columbia.NCR.COM ()
- Subject: SCM Wishlist (Was: Why Isn't Lisp a Mainstream Language?)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.164145.11819@ncrcae.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM>
- Summary: Wanted: weak-cons
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- Organization: NCR Corp, E&M-Columbia, Columbia, SC
- References: <1993Jan27.070106.28425@ads.com> <1993Jan27.175935.24272@cc.umontreal.ca> <JAFFER.93Jan27143229@camelot.ai.mit.edu>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 21:41:44 GMT
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- In article <JAFFER.93Jan27143229@camelot.ai.mit.edu>
- jaffer@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Aubrey Jaffer) writes:
- >Some things which could be added to SCM are:
- > Profiling (how much time spent in each routine)
- > Dynamic Linking (There is a GNU package which does this on Unix
- > systems and Carrette has also suggested a fairly portable method)
- > Editor (buffers + GNU search + curses)
- > String Ports (someone has sent me code for this but I haven't had
- > time to integrate it)
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- I vote for weak-cons so that Thomas (DEC's almost-Dylan) can be ported to it.
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- (BTW, SCM is very nice. Thanks Aubrey!)
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- Barry Shelton
- barry@ute.columbiasc.ncr.com
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