Why not to implement everything in scheme?

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> Why not to implement everything in scheme and
> get rid of gcc -compiling of the source? Or, is it the lexical
> parser which forces the use of gcc?

I like Scheme very much, but I'm not sure still whether it's a
comfortable system for implementing large systems. I have my doubts
about code readability, and the fact that it is rather weakly and
dynamically typed.

Anyway, this discussion is academic, since we have a huge body of
working C++ code, and we are not going to scrap that.

-- 

 Han-Wen Nienhuys   |   address@hidden   |   http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen