Re: [Chicken-users] Choosing a programming language for a web project

[Kon Lovett]

On Sep 29, 2007, at 6:15 PM, Jean-Philippe Théberge wrote:

> <quote who="John Cowan">
> > Jean-Philippe Théberge scripsit:
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> > You essentially never need to do that, because Chicken compiles  
> > into C
> > anyhow, so just write in Scheme and leave it at that.  Speed is a  
> > great
> > advantage of Chicken over the usual "scripting languages".

There is also the 'crunch' Chicken compiler. It takes an R5RS subset  
related to numeric & character vector/scalar & does a tight job. A  
decent choice for some algorithms.

Available as an "egg."

> I guess (but maybe I'm wrong) that in some case, code written  
> directly in
> C will be better than the C generated by chicken.
>
> How is the readeability of the chicken generated C?

The GNU C compiler can parse it just fine. But if you are not a C  
compiler, well, see http://galinha.ucpel.tche.br/chicken-compilation- 
process.

Best Wishes,
Kon

BTW, I guess should have asked if Windows is a desired hosting  
platform. But it seems you answered anyway.

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