Fernando Mato Mira  <matomira@iname.com> wrote:
+---------------
| Bruno Haible wrote:
| > * Its startup time (on Linux - except Linux/Sparc - or Solaris) is only 2.5
| >   times as high as a shell's startup time. You can therefore use it as a
| >   script interpreter (with structures and CLOS), or as a CGI interpreter.
| 
| Now _THIS_ is news. It means one can forget about Scheme for scripts
+---------------

Why do you say *that*?  SIOD Scheme is similarly fast-starting (roughly
2.5 times Bourne Shell to do "hello world")...


-Rob

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