Re: Scheme acceptance [no flames]

[Noel Welsh <noelwelsh@yahoo.com>]

> The only think Scheme is not well adapted to is high
> performance number
> crunching. Except for the performance Scheme is a
> very powerful general purpose
> language.

Well, there are some who would disagree.  Nothing in
Scheme precludes fast number crunching. 
Someone...err...Brad Lucier? has some code in Gambit
that performs equivalently to C for matrix ops.  Now
to get really funky, someone (with copious free time)
should implement the functional arrays and associated
optimisations found in SAC
(http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~sacbase/) in
Scheme.  That would kick-ass! 

Noel

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