[plt-scheme] An Editors Tale

* Paulo Jorge de Oliveira Cantante de Matos <pocm at netvisao.pt> [040124 07:50]:
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> On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 18:09, Grant Miner wrote:
> > 
> > I'm all for it.  Personally I'd like to be able to write nice GNOME apps 
> > in Scheme.  Obviously we need more man power, one way to get that is to 
> > get the Python programmers.  So we have a chicken and egg problem.
> 
> It's nice to that I'm not the only one. Indeed, a GNOME app all of it
> written in Scheme, it must be a dream, however, a dream that I hope will
> become possible one day. 
> 
> We have some programmers, not an army of programmers but still we have
> them, and good ones. However, I think that an effort is not centralized
> and there is not much motivation, but I hope that'll change... :D

  Well, I'm a python programmer, beginning to learn scheme - here's a
  thought:

  I also write in rebol, 
    ( said to be highly influenced by scheme and lisp) 
  which has no exposure to either the OS or the window
  managers. 
  
  It does however, have good TCP/IP features, which I use for database
  access. In my little company, we have thought about writing a GUI
  'server' in either python or perl which would be the 'middle layer'
  between rebol and the OS/Window managers, and 'take orders' thru
  sockets. 

  Any other thoughts on that? Similarly, could one use scheme
  thusly? 

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