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Re: Porting CGEN to other Scheme implementations
Doug Evans <dje@transmeta.com> writes:
> Jim Blandy writes:
> >
> > I'm interested in porting CGEN to MzScheme. MzScheme has an active
> > development community, and (of particular interest to Red Hat) an
> > actively maintained Scheme-to-C compiler. I'd like to talk about how
> > I'm thinking of approaching it, and see what folks think.
>
> How good is the debugging capabilities of MzScheme?
> Compared to Guile? 1/2 :-)
MzScheme has much better debugging capabilities, I think. They have
an IDE called DrScheme which does all kinds of great stuff. Here's a
screen shot of DrScheme giving me an error backtrace:
> OOC, how come Redhat has a particular interest in a Scheme-to-C
> compiler?
Well, just speed.
> btw, one day I want to port CGEN to Rscheme, for fun's sake.
Absolutely! May the most useful win.