Subject: Re: Mixing Scheme and C [was: Which Scheme are you using?]
From: rpw3@rigden.engr.sgi.com (Rob Warnock)
Date: 1998/06/11
Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme
Message-ID: <6lnmt4$usga@fido.engr.sgi.com>

Marius Vollmer  <mvo@zagadka.ping.de> wrote:
+---------------
| Now, it all depends on where you draw the line.  You might be [content]
| with a risky interface from Scheme because you need the function so
| badly and you are willing to bet the stability of your whole Scheme
| system on it.
+---------------

My point was simply that [other than for a handful of "common & critical"
functions like "printf"] nearly nobody has time to do anything else
*except* simply use whatever's in the library one's linking to...


-Rob

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