Re: Implementing Automake in Scheme

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sat, 7 Aug 2004, Norman Gray wrote:

> > On Thu, 5 Aug 2004, Luis Araujo wrote:
> >
> > > I email to ask you for further information about a task in the section 
> > > "GNU Help Wanted"
> > > in savannah, named "Implement automake in Scheme" , there is a brief 
> > > description
>
> I didn't know there was such a thing as the `GNU Help Wanted' list, but I've 
> long thought such a project would be an excellent idea.  It's a pretty 
> natural language for such a task, and quite a few of the important bits of 
> automake.in are, it seems to me, written in a pretty functional style anyway. 
> And scsh is POSIX, portable, and pretty lightweight.

Automake is already written.  It took years.  Perl is already 
installed on most machines.  Scheme is not.  It is surely a waste of 
time to re-implement something simply because it does not use a 
FSF-preferred language.  There must be something more useful for 
volunteers to work on.

Bob
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